The story flashes backward and forward until we have a full picture of this angry, combative family, its emotional ignorance and its hopelessness.
Each enchanting iris seems to sparkle as expressions shift, which they often do: Andrew and his friends are turning thirteen, and they exhibit levels of behavioral cluelessness, emotional ignorance, and psychological confusion wholly appropriate to that age.
Seriously put, age, medical or emotional problems, ignorance, ambivalence, restraint, boredom, disappointment, lack of partners or the prevalence of indifferent ones, all conspire to ruin sex lives.
"Mr. Trump's virulent combination of ignorance, emotional instability, demagogy, solipsism and vindictiveness would do more than result in a failed presidency; it could very well lead to national catastrophe," he warned.
Put it together with Nick Duffell's psychological analysis (G2, 10 June) of the damage done to rich children separated early from their families, and you get the emotional and economic ignorance overlaid with the gloss of confidence which currently rules over us.
Attitude towards disability was explained in five domains: Inclusion (relationships, inclusion, burden to society, burden to family), Discrimination (ridicule, exploitation, irritation, ignorance), Gains (emotional strength, maturity, achievement, determination), and Prospects (sexuality, underestimation, optimism, future prospects).
"Steve's form of ignorance was usually emotional and panicky; mine was self-important," Colbert said.
Likely no one will write a profile in which his work as the publisher of the New York Times is judged based on his lack of empathy or his blissful ignorance of the emotional impact of his actions.
Some persist in seeing Madama Butterfly as a Romantic work, when in fact it deals, often unsparingly, with a man who buys a teenage bride in catastrophic ignorance of the emotional consequences, all of it set against a background of US expansion and exploitation.
And students can face withering criticism from faculty who have little tolerance for ignorance, signs of weakness, or emotional displays.
The emotional and developmental deficits that stem from an ignorance of one's origins are still largely ignored.
