Word: cloyingly
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...Cleopatra, "Age cannot wither nor custom stale her infinite variety ... other women cloy the appetites they feed; but she makes hungry/ Where most she satisfies." Even the vows that she and Antony swear in lovers' defiance of the world are thunderously imperial. Says Antony: "Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch of the ranged empire fall!" and Cleopatra echoes, "Melt Egypt into Nile...
...sucked their fruit globes fair or red: Sweeter than honey from the rock... She never tasted such before, How should it cloy with length of use? She sucked and sucked and sucked the more...
Following on the heels of Digging Out, a critically acclaimed but entirely conventional first novel, Author Roiphe this time has happily been willing to experiment, a rare enough quality in second novelists. Skillfully-and without too much cloy-she captures the minutiae of matrimony and maternity, evoking only too clearly the "educated" woman's dilemma, torn between vulnerability for her children and her demands for self. The Reynoldses make a city scene familiar in particular to New Yorkers. But Margaret's inner scene will be recognized and applauded by young mothers everywhere who, like Margaret...
...like to talk about that in general because it is a central issue in all our work. Each piece dictates how you approach that issue. Like. in Endgame, if I could say it is about something. I believe it is about presence, Hamm at some point says to Cloy-You know what. I never realized I was never there. it all happened without me-meaning. I think, that one can be in the place that something is happening bodily but really not be there. And being there is something that really counts. Later Cloy says-I say to myself. Cloy...
...audience. sometimes talking to themselves. These few little facts are actual, you can discover certain actualities of the situation, such as one man cannot sit, the other cannot stand. It seemed like it would be extremely limiting to get very involved in the question of whether Hamm and Cloy are two parts of the same men-which I've heard a thousand times, Esslin is one of the people who says this, the divided self - you know...