Word: mannerize
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...Goodwill, actually evokes aspects of the previous three decades. Most especially you should not be musing about why a movie that wants to be a funny social commentary -- the press kit hopefully evokes the names of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges -- is shot in the impersonal expressionist manner that was literally foreign to these American masters, a style that was favored by glum and self-important German directors like Fritz Lang...
...learns that her finance has AIDS. The song, which also appears on the No Alternative benefit album, has a moody, organ-supported sound that may seem a little strange in the company of alternative groups such as Asylum. She sings the song in a restrained, almost choked-up manner, trying to convey the feelings of the woman who must "lie awake and pray that you'll strong tomorrow/ And we will see another day." The song is largely successful, if (not surprisingly) somewhat dark, and leaves the listener no doubts as to McLachlan's sincerity...
What a refreshing and all too rare response! Point well made; information added; no deliberate alienation. Why can't more discussions develop in this manner...
Newspapers have open editorial views and the "perspectives" of their reports are inevitably reflected in the stories they choose to cover and the manner in which they decide to present them...
...rifle. "It's just like stealing a base in baseball," he said of the 45 yds. of open street raked by enemy fire through which he sprinted. "Once you make the decision to go, you just go." In the next several hours, he would dodge death in this manner two more times...