Word: gustos
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Aldiss has always written with gusto. This book is not just an exciting, macabre story. Using a verbal counterpoint -19th century literary style against the curt phrases of the 21st-the author has brought off a convincing interpretation of Frankenstein for today...
...from the front of the huge hotel to the back amid much shouting of orders and replies. In all the confusion there was a glimmer of comedy. When a hotel employee paged a journalist, one of the Cypriot troopers, rifle in hand, joined in calling for him with great gusto...
...middle-aged couple walking down a narrow street gray with afternoon shadows cast by deteriorating tenement houses. The wife has long sagging brown hair and dark tired eyes. She wears a beaten skirt and a plain white blouse. The husband, his paunch hanging over his belt, talks with a gusto that tries to hide the hardships so apparent in the lines of his face. He waits outside as his wife enters a factory for a job interview. Inside a doctor's office for a medical examination, she and another, younger, woman stand stripped and defenseless as they suffer the mindless...
...Devine see any diminished appetite. Nixon ate his crab claws with gusto as the Sequoia plied the waters of the Potomac. He chewed through a good slice of roast beef, ate carrots and beans, polished the meal off with ice cream...
...action is a bit shaky at first. A drawn-out scene introducing a band of "shiftless and lazy" characters is relatively unappealing. But the entrance of the skeptical Bill Walker, played with comic gusto by Dan Beckhard, threatens to shake the charitable base of the conversion-oriented mission. Beckhard acts as a conductor, setting the other characters on fire. They ignite at his caustic brutalizing of the mission's sacharine Jenny Hill...