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City editor Victor Watson of the New York American was a man of brooding suspicions and mysterious shifts of mood.
Meynell's remedy for Thompson's despondent mood was typically practical.
The careless writing was in keeping with his mood of savage discontent.
Mr. Khrushchev was jesting in the expansive mood of the successful banker.
It was the first of two doubles by Robinson, who was in a mood to celebrate.
Ambassador Thompson reported from Moscow that the Soviet leader's mood was cocky and aggressive.
The term " manic-depressive illness " or psychosis was coined by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in the late nineteenth century, originally referring to all kinds of mood disorder.
This mood was epitomised in the Beveridge Report.
It was often seasoned with vanilla, chile pepper, and achiote, and was believed to fight fatigue, which is probably attributable to the theobromine content, a mood enhancer.
For example, until the bacterial cause of tuberculosis was discovered in 1882, experts variously ascribed the disease to heredity, a sedentary lifestyle, depressed mood, and overindulgence in sex, rich food, or alcohol — all the social ills of the time.
Elfman was apprehensive at first because of his lack of formal training, but with orchestration assistance from Oingo Boingo guitarist and arranger Steve Bartek, he achieved his goal of emulating the mood of such composers as Nino Rota and Bernard Herrmann.
He was in a melancholy mood about the trip and his health was poor, relying on an inhaler to aid his breathing and there were reports that he was suffering from blackouts.
The primary disturbance in dementia praecox was said to be not one of mood, but of thinking or cognition.
The Human Boy was a collection of schoolboy stories in the same genre as say, Rudyard Kipling's Stalky & Co., though different in mood and style.
When he was in a bad mood, he struck the ground with a trident, causing earthquakes and other calamities.
The film was released shortly before America became involved in World War II, and citizens were still in an isolationist mood.
It was clear by now that Henry was in no mood to reconcile and a compromise with him was not to be had.
Annoyed that he was made to wait in the waiting room for 40 minutes, Groucho went on the air in a foul mood.

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The details of the setting of `` Neutral Tones '' are not, strictly speaking, metaphorical, but they combine to create a mood which is appropriate both to a dismal winter day and to the end of love, and in this way love and weather, the emotions and the elements, symbolize each other in a way that is common to many of Hardy's best poems ( `` Weathers '', `` The Darkling Thrush '', and `` During Wind and Rain '', for example ) and to some moving passages in the novels as well ( Far From The Madding Crowd is full of scenes constructed in this way ).
His monumental Grand Canyon Suite is his best known work, a masterpiece in orchestration and evocation of mood and location.
Christmas music best serenades these shopping months, injecting the Christmas spirit and putting shoppers into the proper mood for buying gifts.
The two best friends then head for the theater in jovial mood while blurting out random lines from a Mayakovsky poem.
Historians debate whether or not the terms imposed on Germany helped the rise of Nazi Germany and were thus a cause of World War II, and whether the terms were the best that could be expected, given the mood of the victors.
Runciman best describes the mood of the night:
She still wears the mood ring retrieved for her by her late best friend Thomas J.
" Georgia Christgau of The Village Voice commented that " Although sometimes her reliance on mood threatens to get the better of Worldwide Underground, Badu remains faithful to the old school of flow, a blend of drums and rhythm designed to service soul's best instruments: its vocalists.
" Conversely, another reviewer described it as " a fairly well done vampire comic book " with a " pitch perfect mood " and pleasant artwork, and About. com's Deb Aoki ranked it fifteenth on her list of the twenty-two best vampire manga.
1998 – The best TV satiric musical duo-Popeasca & Bănică, Moftul român / Romanian mood
Jimmy, the fifties ' pimp and sixties ' black power leader, is the seventies ' guerrilla ; Roche, the jaded white liberal, resembles in his wronged mood a slave-owner -- he is a kind of benign puppeteer ; and Jane, who uses the lingo of sympathy easily (" words that she might shed at any time, as easily as she had picked them up, and forget that she had ever spoken them ") -- Naipaul describes her best: " She was without memory.
" he cameraman confers with the director on: ( a ) the composition of shots for action, since some scenes require definite composition for their best dramatic effect, while others require the utmost fluidity, or freedom from any strict definition or stylization ; ( b ) atmosphere ; ( c ) the dramatic mood of the story, which they plan together from beginning to end ; ( d ) the action of the piece.
Later painters of talent also managed to capture the mood of eusebeia or thoughtful piety of the procession as, for example, on the volute krater of the Kleophon Painter of a sacrifice to Apollo, which shares the quiet dignity of the best of High Classical sculpture.
In Glenskenno Woods, There was a sang or Fause friend show a range of mood and tone, from lyrical to humorous, and her best work avoids the charge of sentimentality which might sometimes be levelled.

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He often discussed Platonic philosophy, the illumination of the mind and soul by direct communion with Spirit ; upon the spiritual and poetic monitions of external nature ; and upon the benefit to man of a serene mood and a simple way of life.
And as is often the case with this director's work, the pace is so slow and the mood so reverent, that initial enchantment gives way to bored fidgeting.
I never let technique get in the way of mood or continuity.
The mood on the set was tense, the actors both emotionally exhausted as Bogart tried to find a way out of his dilemma.
Slater, “ these … prologues … have a far more important function than merely to provide information .” Another way in which the servus callidus asserts his power over the play — specifically the other characters in the play — is through his use of the imperative mood.
Hall and Mendes would first discuss the intended mood of a scene, but he was allowed to light the shot in any way he felt necessary.
Light ( and shade ) can emphasize texture, shape, distance, mood, time of day or night, season, glamour ; it affects the way colors are rendered, both in terms of hue and depth, and can focus attention on particular elements of the composition.
Use of pre-recorded loops made its way into many styles of popular music, including hip hop, trip hop, techno, drum and bass, and contemporary dub, as well as into mood music on soundtracks.
" I hung my story on the mood the song created, the way it affected me personally.
In much the same way that imperative mood in natural languages expresses commands to take action, imperative programs define sequences of commands for the computer to perform.
However, the way the notes are approached and rendered in musical phrases and the mood they convey are more important in defining a raga than the notes themselves.
The new appeasement was a mood of fear, Hobbesian in its insistence upon swallowing the bad in order to preserve some remnant of the good, pessimistic in its belief that Nazism was there to stay and, however horrible it might be, should be accepted as a way of life with which Britain ought to deal.
The resulting ambivalence was exacerbated by a fiery temper and by the way her mood flipped between firm discipline and generous indulgence.
However when these changes start to become controlling, mood swings can start to adversely affect the way someone functions.
Due to the grotesque, unsettling mood effect peculiar to wide-angle lenses, films making use of such perspective distortion can often be placed in one of two categories: Grotesque and surreal satire and fantasy, also to some extent black comedy ( Gilliam, Jeunet & Caro, Orson Welles, Dr. Strangelove ) on the one hand, and serious, more realistic films with a particular edge for social criticism on the other, whereas social conventions, collective society, and / or the motives and acts of leaders are portrayed as grotesque and absurd, and often also feature tyrannical characters with conformist values who act out in an extremely hostile and prejudiced way towards individualism and outsiders ( Paths of Glory, Straw Dogs, The Offence ).
Logic gave way to mood and atmosphere in this story of a man protecting two sisters from a vampire.
The loss seemed irreparable at the moment, but soon the mood of despondency gave way to a new hope.
In conclusion, Peter Zumthor has described what really constitutes an architectural atmosphere as " this singular density and mood, this feeling of presence, well-being, harmony, beauty ... under whose spell I experience what I otherwise would not experience in precisely this way.
It is a structured way of observing and describing a patient's current state of mind, under the domains of appearance, attitude, behavior, mood and affect, speech, thought process, thought content, perception, cognition, insight and judgment.
In 1929 he wrote, “ The beauty and grandeur of this form in motion has to be developed in such a way that it becomes self-sufficient without the use of words .” The inherent beauty & depth of Tagore's songs have persuaded a number of filmmakers to use Tagore ’ s songs in their films including Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Nitin Bose, Tapan Sinha and Kumar Shahani. His songs were also used in British, European & Australian movies just to capture the mood of a cinematic situation & to reveal a delicate interplay of relationships.
The mood of the opening gives way to fugal unrest and, eventually, two chaotic and disturbing outbursts ( Simpson believes these reflect Nielsen's heart attacks, in a manner of speaking, though he does not claim that the piece is pictorial or otherwise programmatic ) before again quieting, to a lightly scored but unsettled close in A-flat.

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