Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Following this exchange early in the meeting, the council engaged in a lengthy grant approval session. But the representatives returned their focus to the issue of the $3,000 allotment with a question and answer session to flesh out the facts...
...make sweeping statements, to express the human condition. To this end, he stuffs ponderous, unwieldy philosophical proclamations into the mouths of his characters. Jenna, the swimming coach who thinks that her pornographic part prompted the suicides, tells herself. "In the beginning was the word, and the word was made flesh, and once passion turns to shame, our lives become apology." McNally cannot disguise preaching by putting it in the mouths of his characters...
...attracted to Jaye because he looked like their notion of a woman. They would say, 'What a pity she's not a woman' -- as if that were a failing in Jaye. Well, if you are attracted, why not deal with it? It is only a piece of meat, only flesh, and there are all varieties of flesh. If you are so inclined...
...experience as a gay man, Miller then finds some underlying gay male project or condition of which this incident is a manifestation, and moves to the alternate side of the encounter to find its manifestation there. In "Two Bodies" the "gay male cultural project" is that of "resurrecting the flesh" in a culture that closets, isolates and armors male flesh rather than expose it for communal display, and Barthes participates in this project when "without at all failing to insist on the body's material lovability, [he] is moved to conceive this body in its most embarrassed state...
...hands of a less skillful writer, this complicated premise might have come off as writing-seminar pretense. But Peck has the talent and energy to flesh out his idea beautifully. Martin and John displays a keen eye for details and striking imagery: a drunken mother ensconced in a dark room "looked like an ice cube in rum;" on the open prairie "the sky gap(es) like an open mouth." Peck's language renders, "My face felt swollen and shapeless, like a moldy orange, as though grief had been shoved into my mouth like a handful of seeds, but I didn...