Word: dwelled
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...Well, since my baby left me, I found a new place to dwell. It's down at the end of lonely street at Heartbreak Hotel. -"Heartbreak Hotel...
Shyamalan is a poet of grieving. His movies dwell in bruised hearts and work deftly to find stirrings there. At times he surrenders to a few horror-film tropes (an army of monsters may be chasing us - let's hide in the cellar!). But Signs is, after all, a chamber piece, handsomely acted by its small cast, in which two sets of siblings must learn to be their brother's keepers. This makes the film a sober, superior thriller. - By Richard Corliss...
...instinct that the end is out there somewhere. We have a cultural impulse to imagine it--and keep it at bay. Just as all cultures have their creation stories, so too they have their visions of the end, from the Bible to the Mayan millennial stories. Usually the fables dwell in the back of the mind, or not at all, since we go about our lives conditioned to think that however bad things get, it's not you know what. But there are times in human history when instinct, faith, myth and current events work together to create a perfect...
...extracurricular commitments, the activities I never tried, the people I might have held on to but didn’t, and the people I never met—all these things remind me of how differently my life might have turned out. I can’t help but dwell upon all the ways I failed to take advantage of this place and time, all the lives I might have led. It’s not that I have many specific regrets, and I would not want to give up the experiences I’ve had and the particular...
...Ending, most of the men dwell in a vaudeville Valhalla (the three main males are named Val, Hal and Al), while the women are the familiar Woody types, exasperated wife and perky bimbo--all played by actresses who weren't born when Allen wrote and starred in his first movie, What's New Pussycat. Allen's need to play cute with women a generation younger used to seem predatory. Now, with him fully looking his age, it's just pathetic...