Word: stupors
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...stuff with it. Ira Hayes [in a scene in the movie] says, Wouldn't it be great if the other guys - meaning the other three compadres who are dead - could be here on this train, eating with silverware and all these niceties? He's in a drunken stupor and he just says, "We shouldn't be here." And that sort of sums the whole thing up. He feels, I'm glad we're alive, but we sure as hell shouldn't be here. They were beginning to realize that maybe they should either be back with their units...
...weak scene and approximately 30 seconds of musical interlude, during a song sung by the apparition of Bruce Springsteen. Hornby meditates on the nature of male self-centeredness and inability to grow up; Kitt and lyricist Amanda Green’s score simply lulls the audience into a bored stupor. (Quite literally, my date for the evening fell asleep before intermission...
...whispered finger-picking of “Wai” have an icy purity befitting the Emily Dickinson poem—“After great pain a formal feeling comes”—from which the album gets its title (“First--Chill--then Stupor--then the letting go”).Indeed, the standout track, “Cursed Sleep,” might be the most musically complex piece to ever carry Oldham’s name. Violins ascend while cellos spiral downwards, the melody darts from wall to wall in a careful pattern...
...most of us have returned to our bubbly stupor. We sit back and say, “It’s too bad there’s all that war out there, but as long as I’m in here, it has nothing to do with me.” Do we have to wait until another disaster strikes to realize it has everything to do with...
...that can capture this particular brand of indulgence all'Italiana is simpatico: a mix of kindness, likability and just plain fun. Some of that fun may be at the guests' expense. After an hourlong massage during my recent visit, I found it hard to rouse myself from a delightful stupor, but the therapist waited for me with a sly, mocking grin as I returned to reality - one eye at a time. Il Pellicano is luxury that doesn't take itself too seriously. "You set certain guidelines for the staff, but you also give them the space to interpret their role...