Word: sullenness
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...sullen, taciturn central character entails a dramatic hazard which Friel sidesteps entirely: he divides his hero in two--accompanying the "public" Gar on stage is another one, representing his inner voice, and apparent only to his counterpart and to the audience. Friel handles this gimmick with wit and versatility. The inner Gar expresses what the other cannot, in a sardonic running commentary on Gar's quiet interaction with the other characters. When the Gars are alone, the inner self serves both as conscience and provocateur...
...moments of transition or private distress. Instead he watches patiently for those moments of equipoise when all that is most permanent and most characteristic is most visible in the face and pose of his sitter. An angry couple sit turned away from each other in a bar, their faces sullen masks lined with bitterness and resignation. The tension between them is palpable yet there are no harsh words or violent gestures, only a deadly calm...
...Lucien is beguiled by the style in which the police maintain themselves: an elegant chateau, sleek automobiles, well-cut clothes, good food and drink, compliant women. More than the luxury, though, he likes the taste of power. Lucien receives credentials and guns, which he displays freely with a certain sullen, anxious strength. But he never entirely dispels the impression of a child showing off new toys. A police pal takes him to his tailor to buy him his first suit...
...first encounter with the myth of Spain came, as I imagine it does with many Americans, through Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Jake, the narrator, is a sullen American expatriate who, frustrated in love, goes to Spain to carouse his solitude away at the Fiesta de San Fermin in Pamplona. Every July a good part of Spain converges on this northern city for a seven-day orgy of wine-drinking and bull-fighting. The bulls selected for each day's contest are run through the city's streets, on the heels of all those brave (and crazy) enough...
...scapegoat?when reporters began investigating the five bunglers who burglarized the Democratic National Committee headquarters on June 17, 1972. That crime detonated the nation's greatest scandal and journalism's longest-running political story. Yet the tocsin sounded initially by the overwhelming majority of news organizations was neither sullen nor loud...