Word: summon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What sets her well apart from the ruck of writers is the lash and sting of her language. She can summon ferocity without effort, can smilingly backhand reader or character into a tumbled heap. But she uses this violent gift in a curiously selective way. At the outset of The Shipping News, she demeans her hero, a blobby, unfocused man named Quoyle, as "a dog dressed in a man's suit for a comic photo," who possesses "a great damp loaf of a body." His faithless wife is "thin, moist, hot . . . in another time, another sex, she would have been...
...third double OT game in two weeks, the Crimson fought hard against 14th-ranked North-eastern but could not summon enough offense to beat the Huskies and ended up with a taste if its own medicine: a 2-1 OT defeat...
...series of coincidences, I turned up at a small reception in Sharon's honor the night after the announcement. I had no illusions that a hawk like Sharon would be at all pleased with the development. Yet I was eager to hear the rhetoric that Sharon would have to summon up to counter the agreement; it was, of course, a step so momentous and unexpected that it would be difficult to condemn out of hand...
...play depicts a group of students, professors and spouses from an American university touring England to see various improving plays. But social politics throw the innocent academic holiday into turmoil. The head of the English department has decided to fire an assistant professor, but can't summon the courage to tell him. A student accuses another professor of sexual harrassment. Romantic and platonic tension abounds...
While the team continually exuded pride, unity and optimism, it was actually checked in its efforts by continual fatigue. When games came down to clutch time, the opponent was able to insert fresh players off the bench, while the Crimson could only summon up reserves of individual strength and adrenaline...