Word: deepthink
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...induced motivation is suspect. Luke might have left his wife and children without ever touching the dice. Even when the plot dawdles, Rhinehart's language and humor exert their wiles. Though he leans more to wisecrack than to wit, he gets off fine mimicrys of TV talk shows, journalistic deepthink and professorial psychoanalytic jargon. Between sheets (the book is copiously copulative), Rhinehart works up a positively Joycean lather-blather...
...staring into a fire that is about to be extinguished," muses Gertrud in a line that expresses the umber tone of the work precisely. The poignant revelation of Gertrud is that Dreyer, now 77, has made an old man's film reverberating with hand-me-down deepthink and reflective sadness...
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