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 ).

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 mood of the story is fashioned from the start through names of the participants: Naomi, which means " my gracious one " or " my delight ," later asks to be called Mara, " the bitter one "; her two sons are Mahlon, " sick ", and Chilion, " weakening " or " pining " and Orpah, meaning " mane " or " gazelle ", is from the root for " nape " or " back of the neck ", appropriate for the daughter-in-law who turns her back on Naomi and returns to her people.

Although " severely elevated mood " sounds somewhat desirable and enjoyable, the experience of mania is ultimately often quite unpleasant and sometimes disturbing, if not frightening, for the person involved and for those close to them, and it may lead to impulsive behavior that may later be regretted.

Todd Klein, the series ' letterer, draws her speech as letters which do not quite match in height or line up neatly, against a multi-colored background, sometimes the background color will match the mood she is in ( red for anger, blue and green for calm, etc .).

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.

Little wonder that, of all the Symphony's movements, this has come in for the greatest amount of criticism and puzzlement ( it has been seen by many as something of a let-down and somewhat superficial, dodging questions set by the previous movements ): its virtually unrelenting mood of celebration seems quite at odds with the dark character of the earlier movements – " a vigorous life-asserting pageant of Mahlerian blatancy ", is how Michael Kennedy describes it.

The following two movements are progressively faster, and the mood of the work lightens considerably, ending quite happily.

The mood of the first part is quite bleak, contrasting with the second part which is livelier and provides evidence of the inspiration Bartók's drew from Hungarian folk music, with dance-like melodies to the fore.

* Tense, aspect, and mood-English has a relatively large number of tense – aspect – mood forms with some quite subtle differences, such as the difference between the simple past " I ate " and the present perfect " I have eaten.

The notion of Black Power advocated by SNCC leaders was quite effective in altering the mood of African-Americans.

The new species also allowed changes of mood through changes of planting, so an area could be dark and melancholic, or light and ebullient, or mysterious ; thus, contemporary gardens such as West Wycombe and Stourhead, both arranged as a walk around a lake, took the visitor through a range of locations, each with its own specific character and quite separate from the last.

Although the action sequences are quite faithful to Woo's typical choreography, comic relief and the general mood distinguish it from his grittier works, such as his previous film, Bullet in the Head ( 1990 ).

Still, most of the people who use BZP, even though they say it is quite easy to stop, do not want to, and continue to use the drug, feeling that it helps them to reach higher levels of mood, sociability, and energy.

Joe Ottoson of Allgame noted that the characters " are all quite vocal ", and the music " sets off the whimsical mood nicely ".

Garcia seemed distracted by something, and the whole mood of the visit seemed quite sombre.

" Caiger-Smith describes its mood as " ingenuous, direct, sometimes eccentric "; and Garner talks of its " quite distinctive character ".

is quite powerful but has the annoying tendency of speaking its mind at inconvenient times, and can even refuse to be pulled from its scabbard ( showing an ability similar to its namesake ) when in a bad mood.

However, the mood of his performance is compensated somewhat by that of Miss Bacall, who generates quite a lot of pressure as a sharp-eyed, knows-what-she-wants girl.

Time magazine's Jay Cocks wrote, " The film is immaculately crafted, funny and quite beautiful, resonant with a lingering mood of loss and loneliness ... Not a single frame in the film is wasted.

J. C. Maçek III of WorldsGreatestCritic. com wrote, " It won't ever be much more than a B-Movie that never quite took off, but those in the mood for some Fulci-esque violence, blood and gore all to the tune of a soundtrack so garish it makes The Hearse sound like Beethoven, this is your flick!

Évaluation d ’ une échelle anglo-saxonne de mesure du tempérament nostalgique dans un contexte culturel français ( Evaluation of an anglo-saxon scale of measurement of nostalgic mood in a French cultural context )

Here, Astaire conveys a sunny yet nostalgic romanticism but later, when the music is danced to as part of " Never Gonna Dance ", the pair will create a mood of sombre poignancy.

In An Inside Look at the Pin-Up Queen of the Universe, a bonus feature on the DVD release of the film, producer Pamela Koffler and screenwriter / director Marry Harron discuss their decision to film most of the movie in black-and-white, which they felt not only perfectly captured the nostalgic mood of the period but also had a psychological impact on the audience.

One study divided college-students ' comfort-food identifications into four categories ( nostalgic foods, indulgence foods, convenience foods, and physical comfort foods ) with a special emphasis on the deliberate selection of particular foods to modify mood or effect, and indications that the medical-therapeutic use of particular foods may ultimately be a matter of mood-alteration.

Penny would not rise to his mood.

Kraepelin contrasted this with manic-depressive psychosis, in which he included not just what would be termed bipolar disorder today but also other forms of mood disorder, including major depressive disorder.

Erasmus, however, notes that the more accurate translation of the Greek imperative mood would be " alea icta esto " let the die be cast.

In the aftermath of Munich, Hitler was in a violently anti-British mood caused in part by his rage over being " cheated " out of the war to " annihilate " Czechoslovakia that he very much wanted to have in 1938, and in part by his realization that Britain would neither ally herself nor stand aside in regard to Germany's ambition to dominate Europe.

Compared with placebo, omega-3 fatty acids appear better able to augment known mood stabilizers in reducing depressive ( but perhaps not manic ) symptoms of bipolar disorder ; additional trials would be needed to establish the effects of omega-3 fatty acids alone.

In Kraepelin's classification this would include ' unipolar ' clinical depression, as well as bipolar disorder and other mood disorders such as cyclothymia.

and, if they did not simply name their place Smith's Beer House, they would apply topical pub names in an effort to reflect the mood of the times.

Prior to his graduation at the top of his class, Adorno was already swept up by the revolutionary mood of the time, as is evidenced by his reading of Georg Lukacs's The Theory of the Novel that year, as well as by his fascination with Ernst Bloch's The Spirit of Utopia, of which he would later write:

The government and the French parliament stayed in Versailles after the quelling of the insurrection, and it was even thought for some time that the capital of France would be moved definitely to Versailles in order to avoid the revolutionary mood of Paris in the future.

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.

Presumably, food was scarce during most of human prehistory, and a tendency toward low mood during the winter months would have been adaptive by reducing the need for calorie intake.

In fact, while Jack Warner was selling the studio to Seven Arts, he would have had the film dumped but for the fact that Israel, of whom Warner was a major supporter, had scored a triumphant victory in the Seven Days War, and he was in too defiant a mood to sell any of his studio's films.

Once the war broke out, Moro-Giafferi changed his tactics and demanded an immediate trial, confident that the anti-German mood, and the inability of the Germans to present evidence, would result in Grynszpan's acquittal.

While the general mood and lyrics continue in the confrontational and emotional tone of Damaged, and the album would prove influential to grunge music as the decade progressed.

In later years, Rapper admitted that he found Davis very difficult to work with and that she would, "... hold the whole set hostage, stopping production for a day, because of her mood.

Wolf was prone to depression and wide mood swings, which would affect him all through his life.

The optimistic mood prior to the operation would have tragic consequences however.

Festinger theorized that these types of comparisons could worsen mood disorders like depression because they would see themselves as being below others and thus become more depressed.

The article states that other things in their peripheral views can easily distract people who are in good moods ; an example of this would be if you were trying to study in the library ( considering you are in a positive mood ) you see people constantly walking around or making small noises.

Yet there are moments in Dangerous when a lighter acting mood would be opportune.

In 1941, when Rosemary was 23, doctors told her father that a new neurosurgical procedure, lobotomy, would help calm her mood swings and sometimes-violent outbursts.

A man of hot temper and swings of mood, French argued with the Cabinet against Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener and Lt .- General Sir Douglas Haig that the BEF should be deployed in Belgium, rather than Amiens, where both Haig and Kitchener believed it would be well placed to deliver a vigorous counterattack once the route of German advance was known.

Their true appearance would be concealed beneath masks, according to writer / producer Ira Steven Behr, because " I wasn't really in the mood to come up with a new alien race.