Word: lovelessly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Furnaces aren’t all fun and games, however. The album’s strongest track, “Teach Me Sweetheart,” is a harrowing portrait of loneliness, sexual frustration, and paranoia. Eleanor sings from the perspective of a young widow wasting away in the loveless home of her deceased husband’s family. She invites “brave young bachelors” to rescue her from her isolation, and imagines that her relatives-in-law are plotting her murder. Eleanor’s vocal performance is raw and affecting. She has a limited...
Mogwai’s manager, Alen McGee, has been quoted as saying that “Mr Beast” is “possibly better than ‘Loveless,’” the legendary My Bloody Valentine triumph of sound engineering (and reportedly the most expensive record ever made).The comparison is not quite called for, but McGee is right to call attention to the album’s production. This album sounds great. The tone is full, lush, and urgent, pushing Mogwai’s music toward an emotional depth that their earlier work...
...Just the beginning of "a very long story," it details the origins of Tyler's feeling that "everything in my life existed around the edges." It dives headlong into her anger about giving up her own ambitions for the sake of raising a child while floundering in an apparently loveless marriage to the neurotic comix-maker Justin Green (who is also famed for his brutal auto-bio works). One memorable sequence, colored in bronze and blood-red, depicts the nursing author in her worst moment, as she imagines herself reduced to a suckling cow and briefly considers killing the baby...
...admonished Harvard women for giving men “free samples,” Mansfield was right back on his grind. Along with a tremendous riff about dining hall food, Mansfield drew blood on three separate battlefields: politically correct professors, the uselessness of benevolent activity, and the dangers of loveless sex. He’d been thinking about these things for a while, he told Doordropped—and all three take some inspiration from his scholarly work...
...disaster for reality TV, went the speculation. As even the New York Times weighed in, calling Jen "curdled" and "deranged," some speculated that the loveless finale would bring the demise of the entire Bachelor/ Bachelorette franchise, which already had dwindling ratings and has so far led to just one marriage after eight tries...