Word: suddenly
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Since 1960, the firm has offered a unique policy to protect Western diplomatic and military officers against the prime hazard on assignment to Moscow: sudden expulsion, and the often considerable personal loss that it involves, from the cost of Russian lessons to the tab for the farewell party. For a $210 annual premium, a Western foreign service officer can get the $5,000 persona non grata coverage for two years, the average tour of duty. As the word of Dobbin's diplomatic coverage got around, personnel assigned to the other Iron Curtain capitals have also sent to Maidenhead...
...landscapes-simple stretches of rivers and mountains, with nothing more architectural to them than an occasional bridge or a range of steps-and to them White lent the best of his sense of color. White's skies, like Turner's, open on a sudden drenching spectrum, but. unlike Turner, the colors are never more than mute. White's palette, even at its rawest, never offered an indelicate hue: violet was his moodiest color...
...venerate it, even though it be a piece of natural psychology; if not, we ought to make short work with it, no matter what supernatural being may have infused it." The then newly proposed theory of subconscious mental processes appealed to James as highly useful for understanding the sudden shifts in character that often attend conversion experiences. Indeed, he lauds the discovery of phenomena outside the "primary consciousness" as "the most important step forward that has occurred in psychology since I have been a student of that science...
...manages to meet a jolly German (Walther Reyer) who is a famous and successful author. To Charrier's amazement, Reyer and his stunning wife (Stephane Audran) make him feel so at home in their luxurious villa that he soon has a latch-key familiarity with the couple. This sudden rescue from loneliness should make Charrier happy; instead, watching Stephane perch adoringly on the arm of her husband's chair, Charrier decides that he must spoil things for them. Snooping on Stephane when she makes daytime trips to Munich, he discovers that she has a lover. Charrier takes photographs...
While listening to poetry, drama, or music, James remarked, "we are often surprised at the cutaneous shiver which like a sudden wave flows over us and at the heart-swelling and the lachrymal effusion that unexpectedly catch us at intervals. . . . If we abruptly see dark moving form in the woods, our heart stops beating, and we catch our breath instantly and before any particular idea of danger can arise." The vital point of the whole theory James stated thus: "If we fancy some strong emotion, and then try to abstract from our consciousness of it all the feelings...