Word: wallower
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...aesthetes complain about, the wild mash-up of comic books with other products, becomes one of the strengths of the show. Comix become instantly re-contextualized as the pop-culture medium they always were. It's nice to climb down from the upper atmosphere once in a while and wallow around...
...books wallow in their dusty Olde Worlde charm: Faeries! Dumbwaiters! Attics! But then, reading has an old-fashioned charm too. --By Heather Won Tesoriero
...problem with many Hollywood biopics is that they assume the audience cares about celebrities as people. They wallow in sad childhoods, sadder marriages--blah, blah, boring, boring--forgetting that we love stars for their artfully fabricated personas. We like our celebrities to be celebrities, thank you very much. If they wanted to be real people, they should have gone into retail...
With a decade between Up and his last album, the beautiful and emotionally fraught Us, Peter Gabriel may have forgotten why musicians have to curb the tendency to wallow in themselves. Gabriel may be physically incapable of making a sonically uninteresting album—Up is certainly no bubblegum chart-topper—but at times he seems to have lost track of his knack for melding oddball ideas with a pop sensibility honed to perfection in his years with Genesis...
...Even so, the overall effect of the book is nothing short of heartbreaking. Children are abused and gang-raped. Smart women are given away in marriage to Party members who are manipulative brutes. Others are forced to wallow in abject poverty, scraping together whatever they can to feed themselves and their families. At several points, the agony and suffering here may become too overbearing for even the strongest soul; some readers will likely need to reach for a tissue and take a moment to recover from the wretched misery...