Word: interplaying
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...women who surround Claudia are made real partly through painting extreme characteristics that are easily sustained. But the interplay which fills the plot makes some extremes much more plausible: Claudia's friend Anna, who is engaged to Sandro, has an apparently neurotic desire to get away from him, even though he attracts her, but after two hours of Sandro's behavior it is entirely clear that there is nothing unreasonable about her wish...
...claims in his introduction, the philosophy of non-attachment, but the consistent recognition of the dialectical oppositions within the psyche. "Man lives under the law: where love is, there also is hate, where respect, there is also envy." Throughout the letters, he expresses an intuitive grasp of the complex interplay between ambivalent forces. From the pain and pleasure of birth in bloodshed, man destroys as he creates, dies as he lives...
...women who surround Claudia are made real partly through painting extreme characteristics that are easily sustained. But the interplay which fills the plot makes some extremes much more plausible. Claudia's friend Anna, who is engaged to Sandro, has an apparently neurotic desire to get away from him, even though he attracts her. After two hours of Sandro's behavior, it is entirely clear that there is nothing unreasonable about her wish...
...that writer Foreman has made no attempts to give his characters motivation, to instill them with substance or individuality. To him they are merely puppets, the storyteller's devices in advancing the plot. There is, of course, nothing necessarily wrong with this--it permits a much faster pace. But interplay between puppets is likely to be unconvincing, and indeed it is. David Niven's cynical outbursts are dull unless they are funny, and the whole business about how Anthony Quinn is going to kill Gregory Peck when the war is over just doesn't come off. It makes no difference...
Beyond All Isms. A heavy interplay of curious coincidences and a shallow depiction of character place this book with Silone 's frailer fiction. However, the fact that the main sacrificial act in the novel is performed by a Fascist is significant as well as startling. It marks how much the world and Silone have changed from the 1930s, when left-v.-right politics was not only the ruling international passion but a kind of immutable moral law. The Fox and the Camellias is a book beyond Fascism, Communism, socialism or even humanism. It is a Christian statement, arguing essentially...