Word: emotionalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Goretta works in an exhilaratingly quick, dry, uninflected style. He seems to have a horror of squeezing an emotion too hard or dwelling on a scene too long. He depicts a holdup with no more than a breathless glimpse of Pierre fleeing across a supermarket parking lot. He foreshadows the...
And we, who have always thought of joy As rising, would feel the emotion that almost amazes us when a happy thing falls.
Asked to describe his duties, he says: "Right now I'm a short-order cook. You want some French fries, I'll give you some French fries. I'm not sitting here making great decisions." That is pure Jordan, or "Jerden," as the name is pronounced down...
Seeing pictures of abused women, whether advertisements or photo layouts [Feb. 7], excites one overwhelming emotion in me-intense, frustrated anger. I am seized by the urge to abuse someone in return, preferably the people who create such monstrosities and rationalize them in the name of art.
Cheever's great strength has always been his ability to charge both the ordinary and the fanciful with emotion. Falconer is strong on feelings, even though they often overflow the novel's loose structure. Farragut is admittedly a man keenly aware of the banal ironies of his life...