Word: insightfulness
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...such strained spots fade from importance next to the sensitive insight Domini nurtures in this impossible landscape. The devil narrator's most telling lines hide in throwaways, with the pretended unconsciousness increasing their force. "The one concrete proof of our changed relationship," he offers timidly, "...if indeed it is concrete proof, if indeed it was a changed relationship--is that Miplip and I became lovers." And when the "relationship" turns painful, "every single time I wondered if I could possibly survive (though how I got the idea that there is anything besides survival, I cannot imagine...
...country." Was this just seller's enthusiasm, or in spite of all evidence to the contrary, did Reagan really believe it? Had he reached such conclusions as a result of his genuine hospitality as host along with his known reluctance to get into contentious details? An astonishing insight into Reagan's attitude, this was the most disquieting and lasting impression of his fifth press conference. An insight like this never emerges from a photo opportunity...
...lucid introduction to such often misunderstood concepts as the Oedipal complex, penis envy, and the tripartite scheme of the mind. Her delvings are in themselves persuasive arguments. Along with some of the history of the psychoanalytic movement--she assiduously avoids Adler and Jung--the author provides a rather scorching insight into the analytic establishment. The image of these beacons of the analytic community, privy to the holy of holies of the human mind, playing mean and vicious power games and displaying no small modicum of paranoia, induces a sobering feeling about what the phrase "psychic determinism" actually means...
...familiar psychological and political theorizing. "Many of the blacks had never seen anything like it [Portland] before-the mountains, the forests, the river-they had heard of land like this but it always seemed to be something that would belong to white people." The book's one insight is into the character of Bill Walton. He casts an emotional shadow that is even larger than his considerable (6 ft. 11 in.) physical presence. Long misunderstood as a hippie superstar with a low tolerance for pain, Walton emerges here as courageous in the face of injury but petty about...
...futility of life in a land where whiskey proved cheaper than bread, as Jewish resourcefulness and guile may have from centuries of oppression across the diaspora. Yet, drawing these traits in light of their cultural origins is hardly original to Sowell's treatise. His digging can only add little insight to legends that have been around for centuries...