Word: undertow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even in a secular age, there are many artists who can be called religious. Bergman, the minister's alienated son, alone can be considered holy. His fatalism has an undertow of sublimity. His films are chapters in a coherent-if desperate -philosophy: Worship God or deny him; rage if you will, love if you can. But feel. For in the universal paradox, what God cannot, man must...
...runaway are all branches on the same family tree. It is more than the physical resemblance that unites them?the El Greco shanks, the narrow faces with too much jaw, and the pale, inquiring eyes of hunted animals. There is also a common quality of purpose, a mutual undertow of melancholy...