Word: broodingness
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Yet this secretive, brooding man is also spoken of as a hero and immortal because, some say, he carries 50 bullets in his body. Who fired them is not clear. More apparent is the author's intention to give a mythic nudge to a character whose life seems mundane and...
"I told the kids I don't want to hear about this," Cleary Said. "We've got two big games coming up in our league and we're in first place. That's all I want to hear. What's the use of brooding?"
What to do? No one supposes that the millennium has arrived and that mainstream audiences will happily sit still for an evening of contemporary music. But new music is not the only road to innovative programming. There are scores of neglected works by masters great and small that deserve dusting...
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY: THE MERMAID (London). Long lost, a brooding tone poem and a late Romantic masterwork.
But these are nothing compared with the extremes in him, in brave, dumb Captain Midlife, jogging with the kids, exhaling frost; or out on the town, red-mufflered to the eyes, a Scotch ad beaming with conventional merriment. Inside his aching, brooding head, a mess of city-dump proportions. He...