Word: poetically
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...deflects the seriousness of his novel. It is a euphonious mystery story set at a U.S. Army Air Corps training base during the 1940s. Flying, in the mechanical as well as transcendental sense, is basic to the action, which is surprisingly abundant for a book that is shaped by poetic impulses rather than plot...
...instrument. "The violinists and cellists I heard in the Granada of that time seemed to extract catlike wails from the violin and asthmatic gasps from the cello," he wrote in Segovia, his 1976 memoir. "But even in the hands of common people, the guitar retained that beautiful plaintive and poetic sound...
...elsewhere, Updike displays the shapeliness and poetic perception that make him a master of this demanding form. More Stately Mansions is balanced on two provocative images, a cross section of a nautilus shell and a big Victorian house, "with all its rooms and this naked freckled woman waiting in one of its chambers." The story itself has the nacreous quality of an old memory; the narrator, a biology teacher in a declining New England mill town, recalls his affair with a California woman who is married to the city's last factory owner. The period is the early '70s with...
Such excessively poetic descriptions soon become tiresome, the moreso because Naipaul keeps on repeating them. In one paragraph, for example, he tells us three times that hay is warm and golden...
Spell 7 tries to be too much. It not only wants to be political and poetic, but entertaining as well. That the Mather House production fails to be all three is not surprising. Director Benston & crew do succeed, though, in creating a compelling statement about the the latent racism that perpetuates stereotypes and keeps Black actors in condescending Black roles...