Word: emotionlessly
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Trial observers said that Gilbert hurt himself with his stoic manner and his calm description of the shooting while on the witness stand. His emotionless testimony made it easier for prosecutors to charge that the killing was a cold-blooded act that had nothing to do with mercy. Said one observer: "He didn't cry, didn't pour out his feelings in soap-opera fashion." The jurors also seemed to be affected adversely by Gilbert's decision to put two bullets into his wife. "We gave him charity on the first shot," said Juror Rosalyn Brodsky. "He was upset...
Bach's music is exceedingly complex, sometimes combining four or five melodies at once, and Andrei A. Molotin '88, a self-proclaimed Bach fanatic, said that this complexity may explain why Bach was not so popular in his own time. Molotin labelled Bach's music emotionless and pure, and said it should not be played in the more flowing romantic style, which would cause some of the structure to be lost...
Meanwhile, Clarisse's husband is enduring an emotionless affair with a vapid starlet, while the sensual diva leads on a young gigolo who ultimately kills himself over his love for her. The subplots enthrall, but all fade away as Clarisse's and Julien's love reaches its promising resolution...
...reserved, reading several of his first Race deadpan from a script that WOMAN gives him. Keraga gets a chance to display his ability, oddly enough, in a scene in which MAN cannot express himself. He deftly executes the complicated task of communicating a communications breakdown. Keraga's rather emotionless stutterings raise the unsettling possibility that MAN does not care whether he is being understood...
Lightness is the key to Red All Over, which shares with current releases The Nylon Curtain by Billy Joel and Nebraska by Bruce Springstcer an emphasis on the lunacy and pathos of daily American life. In "work song," strong vocals power an emotionless ballad which is somehow Russian-flavored, evoking the Brothers Karamazov singing capitalist work hymns. The music is effective and lively, the repeated lyrics "I've got a quite important job with many things to do my stenographer is pretty and my wallpaper is new" come across with just the right amount of subdued pride to make "work...