Word: gushing
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Women have always been masters at devastating domestic retort in art as well as life. Feminine sensibility in fiction is popularly supposed to deify feeling, but the better women novelists have customarily proved short on gush and coolly capable of dealing out the kind of cruel punishments that love gone wrong (or right) often seems to breed. It is hardly surprising, in this age when violence seems so fashionable, to find a handful of female writers, some celebrated, some not, skillfully spinning tales of love and death...
...initially dubious about using men in women's roles, was delighted with the results. "Underlying the love scenes be tween Orlando and Rosalind there is an incandescent purity," he says. "Men are somehow better at this than wom en. Actresses, even the best ones, are likely to gush a little." Williams is mus ing over other possibilities: "It might be interesting to do Antony and Cleopa tra with a man as Cleopatra. There isn't a female around who can really play that role...
...engine. Sonny's model set him back about $10,000, which is cheap considering that the Excalibur is the car-of-the-month in Hollywood, and that, furthermore, owning the car-of-the-month wins nearly as many prestige points these days as punching Frank Sinatra in the gush...
...left for his last American tour, sick and penniless, he perhaps knew that the end was near. In one of his last letters to Princess Caetani, a sometime patron, he wrote: "It is not enough to presume that once again I shall weave up pardoned, and waddle and gush along the land on my webbed sealegs as musical and wan and smug as an orpheus of the storm: no, I must first defeat any hope I might have of forgiveness by resubmerging the little arisen original monster in a porridge boiling of wrong words and make a song and dance...
...good." In fact, her verse was carefully shod, precise, often dazzling. It was shot through with self-pity and brittle melancholy. Her frequent approach was to make herself the fall girl in the battle of the sexes, and her favorite method was the abrupt change of pace. She might gush sentimentally and then suddenly clamp on her cynic's mask...