Word: gutting
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...work, smuggling in actual information under the guise of normal journalism. Thus the use of soft-spoken (mousy), loyal (dumb), high-minded (inept), hardworking (plodding), self-made (crooked) and pragmatic (totally immoral). A person who is dangerous as well as immoral can be described as a fierce competitor or gut fighter, and a meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands-on executive. When strung together properly, apparently innocent modifiers can acquire megaton force. For instance, a journalist may write, "A private, deliberate man, Frobisher dislikes small talk, but can be charming when he wants to." In translation...
...minute observer of body language: how people move, slump, sit up, point and shrug; how they writhe in pain; how the dead sprawl. Hence the vividness of Abraham's gesture in The Sacrifice of Isaac, holding his wailing son down on a rock like a man about to gut a fish, even though the landscape behind them is Venetian in its pastoral calm. In The Supper at Emmaus, the characters seem ready to come off the wall, as Christ makes his sacramental gesture over the food. This insistence, this feeling of a world trying to burst from the canvas...
There is a point to Becks teaching style. "I've tried to minimize all things that stand between teacher and student," he says. Veterans of the course assert this means Gut. "I could have missed class every day and still have done the work," a student wrote in Northwestern's version of the CUE guide...
...gut feeling is that particularly in an election year, the American public becomes pretty tired of public opinion data early on and don't pay them much attention," she says...
...your Miranda rights, you are apparently entitled to be addressed as "sir" until you are proved guilty and to be interrogated by a policeman wearing a scrupulously buttoned three-piece suit. It comes as a relief to Axel when a questioner gives him a sneak punch in the gut. He takes it as a signal that the traditional basics of police work have not been entirely forgotten among the boutiques and the Mercedes...