Word: humblingã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mental institution following his breakdown, to his affair with a 20-years-junior lesbian family friend named Pegeen Mike (after a character in Synge’s “Playboy of the Western World”), and his final projection fantasy and eventual ‘humbling?? at Pegeen’s hands, is essentially in deference to that central question. It’s a cruel (if not particularly funny) joke that Axler’s breakdown ensued after a failed Prospero/Macbeth double bill. It’s simply inevitable, then, that when Axler finally answers...
...Humbling?? comes shortly on the heels of last year’s “Indignation,” a similarly clipped, brutal character study, this time of a younger Rothian hero, Marcus Mesner: the already- (or almost-) deceased narrator who must recount and scrutinize the events that lead to his expulsion from Winesburg College and a death sentence at the front lines of the Korean War. Like in “The Humbling,” the thematic and narrative concerns of that book seemed more important to Roth than the construction of an illuminating or sympathetic...
...pages, Roth never gives “The Humbling?? any opportunity to be more than an exercise in writing that can be ‘read’ in those various ways. Roth seems to have given no consideration to an emotional center to his novel, and purposefully so. And while this provides for a fascinating project—doubtless a project only made possible by a genius like Roth’s—this fascination never translates to enjoyment. Nor does the admiration one may hold for Roth’s vaunted corpus ever translate...
...same date last year, then pay for the difference. HUDS representatives could not be reached for comment yesterday. Ali added that the day’s fast—a ritual that comprises one of the five Pillars of Islam—had been a “humbling?? and “selfless” process because it prompted sacrifice from a diverse array of people. “It shows how we ignore the small differences within ourselves to come together in a joined effort to do some good,” he said...
Nowski said the award was “humbling??a huge honor” that it was “slightly overwhelming” to be feted alongside Faust...