Word: tormentingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lose the vision of the canvas as a whole, he encouraged them to paint with a palette knife in quick, broad strokes. "Swing a bigger brush. Have enthusiasm," he said. With most students he was rarely harsh, but to a few, his Saturday morning critiques must have been a torment. Once a young woman showed him a sentimental painting of two children playing on a beach. "I'm not going to say a thing about this picture." he said icily. Then, exploding, he roared, "This is a damnable thing!" By the time he had finished, the woman...
...easy to forget. His young girls lounge and stretch themselves, shift uncomfortably as if painfully in doubt about what to do with their newly awakened bodies. What makes them distasteful and at the same time affecting is that the artist himself seems to know exactly the secret of their torment. Balthus' other creatures are equally painful; they share streets and rooms, but they do not speak or even take notice of one another. They fascinate the viewer not by anything they do but simply by what they are-absolutely and agonizingly alone...
...delivering a message, more clearly because he is so out of tone with the film. This same conscious search for certainty and safety links the knight of The Seventh Seal, the aging doctor of Wild Strawberries, the Magician, and even the distraught schoolboy of the earlier and less sophisticated Torment...
...Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken. The author may be a little old-fashioned-he writes of inner torment without becoming mired in Freudianism-but his short stories are all well cut, and the best, of them are brilliant...
...Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken. Well cut, correct and a trifle oldfashioned, the author's short stories deal brilliantly with inward torment but less well with events; the best of them are of a very high order indeed...