Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These unconvincing and relatively unimportant events, fleetingly described, contribute to a vague fuzziness that engulfs the book by the last few chapters. When Delbanco relates the central events that lead to the book's close, the fuzziness degenerates into a sense of sheer bewilderment. Even Delbanco, one feels, no longer understands his characters...
...uncomplicated and robust rock and roll, a quality which is especially reinforced in a concert setting. Their music has a visceral appeal; something that makes it greater than the sum of its parts. Rock is simply an idiom which they have mastered. One might say their mastery for the sheer feel of rock music is greater even than their musical proficiency in creating...
...difficult to believe that this is the reaction that the play's producers wanted to provoke. The problem is that whatever the reason behind Colapinto's self-centered, petulant rendition of Macbeth--be it poor judgement, a deliberate attempt at experimentation, or sheer incompetence--it undermines the drama and terror essential to the play. By subverting Macbeth's atmosphere of tragedy, Colapinto's performance ultimately prevents the production from generating the fear and explosive emotion which the play is intended to evovoke. To take the Aristotelian approach, it denies us the catharsis of tragedy. To use layman's terms...
...couldn't believe it," Hancock commented on the sheer number of people competing. "After the swim, I had to run half of a mile to just to get through all of the people to my bike...
...case with stars, but the charisma that works for him on screen is readily apparent in person too. It's that smile, the one that detonates in quick stages across his face, starting with just a shy quiver of amusement, then a wry grin, and then bursting into sheer amazement at--what? Its own infectiousness? You can't help being drawn to it, and neither, you feel...