Word: insight
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Iris Murdoch, Litt.D., novelist and philosopher (The Sacred and Profane Love Machine). For her keen insight into the human condition...
...daughter if she would like help setting her hair, and Black wondered, "Why is she doing this? Is she trying to smother me? Destroy me?" Scientology has since allayed such fears, soothed her about her recent divorce from Actor Skip Burton, and given her some new, if hardly original, insight: "He wasn't the right...
THERE WILL BE no real story, there will only be Tod's gradual insight into the violence which lies beneath this palm and stucco paradise. Nothing is going to happen--the undercurrent is always there, whether Tod perceives it or not, so the holocaust of the final moments is a foregone conclusion...
...swimming in blinding expanses of white space. Pages go by bearing single words: "Polaris," "horizon." Taken singly, these pages seem too easy, too close to the work of lazy poets who write a word like "loneliness" in the middle of a blank piece of paper and call it an insight...
...loaded onto a deportation bus, her apartment looted by anti-semitic neighbors, and the streets thronged with police rounding up all Jews? Furthermore, the couple's growing intimacy is treated with tasteless, cliche sentimentality. Dramatic love scenes in dark hallways, passionate signs and sweeping camera movements substitute for emotional insight; the lovers' frantic attempt to escape the police and their eventual parting gradually overshadow the deportation, as the film degenerates into melodrama...