Working the singles era, he could relate a short story, or establish a mood in under three minutes.

He produced " enigmatic and intricate mood pieces " and rejected action in favor of contemplation, focusing on image and design over character and story.

The Wedding-Guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience and fear to fascination as the Mariner's story progresses, as can be seen in the language style: for example, Coleridge uses narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create either a sense of danger, of the supernatural or of serenity, depending on the mood of each of the different parts of the poem.

Depth, proximity, size and proportions of the places and objects in a film can be manipulated through camera placement and lenses, lighting, set design, effectively determining mood or relationships between elements in the story world.

Louis Kronenberger of PM said, " the musical fantasy not only has charm ; it shows a good deal of independence ... its charm must lie less in any story it tells than in the general mood it creates ; and it has created that mood by fusing a number of theatre elements as densely as possible ".

" I hung my story on the mood the song created, the way it affected me personally.

In the same volume, sweeping landscapes will contrast sharply with hard-edged action scenes and the art matches the changing mood of the story quite well.

Moreover, the episode was shot in the summer, on a set without air-conditioning, with the director actually turning up the heat on certain key scenes to create the necessary mood and appearance for the story.

Literary critic Darrell Schweitzer, however, comments that The Cats of Ulthar resembles Dunsany in " mood and execution " only and that " has no obvious parallels in any Dunsany story ".

In common with the music traditions of other Asian cultures, such as Persia and India, one strand of traditional Chinese music consists of a repertoire of traditional melodies with tempo and ornamentation varying according to the mood of the instrumentalist, the audience, and their reaction to what is being played, the same melody can be used to serve many different roles be it merry, melancholic or martial ( this can be glimpsed in the love theme of the Butterfly Lovers ' Violin Concerto where the same melody at different points in the lover's story reflects elation, turbulence and dejection ).

Most films will also include selective use of other transitions, usually to convey a tone or mood, suggest the passage of time, or separate parts of the story.

" The lack of a finishing frame in this story has the effect of leaving the reader disoriented, adding to the disturbed mood of the story.

Fleming biographer Andrew Lycett noted that at the time Fleming was writing both the television scripts, and the short story collection, " Ian's mood of weariness and self-doubt was beginning to affect his writing " and this can be seen in Bond's internal monologue of thoughts.

The critic for The Times reflected that " the mood of For Your Eyes Only is, in fact, a good deal more sober and, perhaps, weary than before "; the critic also thought that the short form worked well with Bond, and that " the girls, though a short story allows them only walk-on parts, are as wild and luscious as ever ".

As a result of the feelings generated by the William ritual murder story and subsequent intervention by the authorities on behalf of the accused, the growing suspicion of collusion between the ruling class and Jews fueled the general anti-Jewish and anti-King Stephen mood of the population.

The story also reflects on Chandler's mood upon realizing his baby son has replaced him as the centre of his wife's affections.

Logic gave way to mood and atmosphere in this story of a man protecting two sisters from a vampire.

Despite the grouchy and melancholy mood Erik first shows due to his injuries, he and Tamara make up as the story comes to an end.

The finality of the story, the defeat of the party, gives this work a mood of tragedy, but with final acceptance.

In truth, Brave Orchid ’ s feminine anger definitely defines the mood of “ At the Western Palace ”, so much so that at the end of the story, she makes her daughters take a pledge to control the wily ways of their future husbands.

It is director Lukas Moodysson's third feature film which marks a sharp change of mood from his previous two films, the uplifting love story Show Me Love and Together, set in the 1970s.

Then, they prepare a treatment, a 25-to-30-page description of the story, its mood, and characters.

Even so astute a commentator as Harold Clurman of The Nation has said that `` Waiting For Godot '' is `` the concentrate of the contemporary European mood of despair ''.

With another sudden change of mood, he is again calm and protective, exhorting her to trust and obey him as God's spokesman -- and the chromatic scale descends in ominous contradiction.

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 ).

but the mood is not quite nostalgic -- Hardy would not allow sentiment to soften his sense of the irredeemable pastness of the past, and the eternal deadness of the dead.

There is no reason why most theatergoers should not have a pretty good time at `` Donnybrook '', unless they are permanently in the mood of Enright when he sings about how easily he could hate the lovable Irish.

Anxiety is a generalized mood that can occur without an identifiable triggering stimulus.

Another view defines anxiety as " a future-oriented mood state in which one is ready or prepared to attempt to cope with upcoming negative events ," suggesting that it is a distinction between future and present dangers which divides anxiety and fear.

Rieux is like a witness who exercises restraint when called to testify about a crime ; he describes what the characters said and did, without speculating about their thoughts and feelings, although he does offer generalized assessments of the shifting mood of the town as a whole.

The tomb is somberly monotone and lacks the polychromatic excitement that detracts from the elegiac mood of Urban VIII's tomb.

In his analysis of Aalto, Giedion gave primacy to qualities that depart from direct functionality, such as mood, atmosphere, intensity of life and even national characteristics, declaring that " Finland is with Aalto wherever he goes ".

An antidepressant is a psychiatric medication used to alleviate mood disorders, such as major depression and dysthymia and anxiety disorders such as social anxiety disorder.

The term antidepressant is sometimes applied to any therapy ( e. g., psychotherapy, electro-convulsive therapy, acupuncture ) or process ( e. g., sleep disruption, increased light levels, regular exercise ) found to improve a clinically depressed mood.

Changing the balance of serotonin and norepinephrine would help the brain cells send and receive messages, therefore boosting the mood, which also is the main reason why these types of medications are called dual reuptake inhibitors.

Despite the name, the off-label use of " antipsychotics " is said to involve deploying them as antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs, mood stabilizers, cognitive enhancers, anti-aggressive, anti-impulsive, anti-suicidal and hypnotic ( sleep ) medications.

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.

The predominant mood of these autumnal celebrations is a gladness for the fruits of the earth mixed with a certain melancholy linked to the imminent arrival of harsh weather.

Beramok is associated with mental issues of severe depression or other mood disorders.

The first movement is in sonata form, and the mood is often stormy.

The shift in sentiment from excessive optimism early in the year to the present mood of caution has probably been a good thing, in that it has prevented the accumulation of the burdensome inventories that have characterized many previous swings in the business cycle.

Ambassador Thompson reported from Moscow that the Soviet leader's mood was cocky and aggressive.

* A prayer for future prosperity ( 7: 14 – 17 ): The mood switches from a request for power to grateful astonishment at God's mercy.

There is fairly consistent evidence from prospective studies that recent life events and interpersonal relationships contribute to the likelihood of onsets and recurrences of bipolar mood episodes, as they do for onsets and recurrences of unipolar depression.

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.

An unexpected olive branch came from King George V, who, in a speech in Belfast called for reconciliation on all sides, changed the mood and enabled the British and Irish Republican governments to agree to a truce.

This theory stems from a history of numerous studies indicating that positive mood increases the frequency of helping and prosocial behaviors.

Whale suffered from mood swings and grew increasingly and frustratingly more dependent on others as his mental faculties were diminishing.

The distinctive quality of Achard's plays was their dreamlike mood of sentimental melancholy, underscored by the very titles which were primarily taken from popular bittersweet songs of the day.

But instead of paying up, local police officers panicked and tried to get rid of Miss Phombeya ( now visibly parading her anger in front of the verandah restaurant ) in the process hurting her toe ; whereupon a crowd soon gathered outside Ryall's Hotel and quickly the mood shifted from the ' hurting toe ' to protesting the imprisonment of Banda and other local leaders by the federation government.

The World Health Organization's classification system defines a manic episode as one where mood is higher than the person's situation warrants and may vary from relaxed high spirits to barely controllable exuberance, accompanied by hyperactivity, a compulsion to speak, a reduced sleep requirement, difficulty sustaining attention and, often, increased distractability.

Melancholia ( from Greek-melancholia, " sadness ", literally black bile ), also lugubriousness, from the Latin lugere, to mourn ; moroseness, from the Latin morosus, self-willed, fastidious habit ; wistfulness, from old English wist: intent, or saturnine, ( see Saturn ), in contemporary usage, is a mood disorder of non-specific depression, characterized by low levels of both enthusiasm and eagerness for activity.

The series also made extensive use of incidental music, composed by Ed Welch, which often hinted at a particular genre to fit the mood of the scenes, frequently incorporating well-known pieces of music such as " God rest you merry, gentlemen " or Intermezzo from Jean Sibelius ' Karelia Suite.

The novel begins with Deckard feeling alienated from his bed-ridden wife, Iran, who misuses her mood organ device, intended to keep the population in even temper, by dialing the depression setting daily.

Sources from Pakistan claimed that Musharraf and his military government's officers were in full mood to exercise tough conditions on Sharif, was intended to sent Navaz Sharif to gallows to face similar fate as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1979.

Often depicting few characters and concentrating a ' single effect ' or mood, it differs from the anecdote in its use of plot, and the variety of literary techniques it shares with the more extensive novel.

One such article was from the Daily Express, in which the interviewer noted " a lightening change came over her face ", which was the first public mention of the rapid changes in mood that became characteristic of her.