Word: pent-up
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...Their goalie, Felix Potvin, helped me put on four boxes' worth of equipment, which weighed 30 lbs. He then had Warren Luhning, a rookie forward, take shots on me. What I didn't realize was that Luhning had not yet scored an NHL goal and had a lot of pent-up aggression. This became obvious when he skated around the net with his arms in the air after scoring an 80-m.p.h. slap shot on me. Potvin thought that was overdoing...
...simultaneously from looking at modern art and listening to his therapists: the principle that art could ultimately depend not on acquired talents but on inner resources, no matter how disturbed that inner life was." But could you make major art based largely on pent-up mythic fictions from outside your own cultural frame...
...They decided the idea was so brilliant that they wrote down the bare bones of the performance and took it on the road, producing it throughout the known world before retiring and turning the script over to those who need it most; namely, pre-midterm college students with a pent-up urge for nose-thumbing...
...another woman had led many to presume that he was hard-hearted, if not a murderer (and they kept hacking his name off her Yorkshire gravestone). That was until the sudden and unassuming launch of "Birthday Letters" earlier this year, in which Hughes finally let loose all the pent-up feelings about his former love the only way he knew how -? through poetry. "I see you there, clearer, more real/ than in any of the years in its shadow/ as if I saw you that once and never again," he wrote. "You were a new world. My new world...
Here at Harvard, where black-tie doesn't mean camo cumberbunds and worn-down Redwing boots, hunters are a rare breed. (Although picking off squirrels with super-soakers may have a visceral appeal to students seeking an outlet for pent-up midterm anxiety.) In the city of Boston, there's a general shortage of gun-racks, camouflage jumpsuits, Winchester rifles, and taxidermists, none of which would harmoniously coincide with a cityscape of red-brick buildings and sculptured topiaries...