Word: crueller
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...when useful; the YouTube universe, in which every utterance is rewound, scrutinized and parsed, is new to her. When she succumbed to some teary emotionalism at the Globes, the Times of London called her acceptance speech a "disaster" and warned direly that her exuberance was insensitive to the "darker, crueller" mood of an America in economic collapse. Try processing critiques like that while smiling warmly on camera as Oprah Winfrey tells you how much she approves of your implant-free breasts. You'd hyperventilate too - especially if, for the first time in memory, you don't have a job lined...
...that my life is the non-identical twin, a parody, an inferior variant of another man's life, somewhere on this or another earth. A demon, I felt, was forcing me to impersonate that other man, that other writer who was and would always be incomparably greater, healthier and crueller than your obedient servant...
This showed especially in the "Egmont" Overture, a piece built upon tensions and climaxes which were just not there. But even crueller were passages in the second and last movement of the Symphony, which build to powerful, triumphant counter-rhythms that were simply diluted away. The majestic main theme of the finale never reached a logical fulfillment. The examples go on and on; always the inevitability of Beethoven's structure was underplayed or destroyed...
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