"That was such a terrible thing to do," said Mr. Henke, who has difficulty hearing conversation in crowded places and who compensates by saying very little.
Wallace lives with Gromit, an intellectually gifted dog who compensates for his want of a mouth — normally a useful accoutrement — by cultivating vast reserves of long-suffering nobility.
It has its own working-class hero who loses his identity (and ultimately his sanity) after being forced out of his livelihood, and who compensates by pinning unrealistic hopes on his coddled, lazy offspring.
"Think of cowboys, and how all young people idealize them," said Foss's wife, Cornelia Foss, who is a painter and who compensates for her husband's diminished vigor — he has Parkinson's — with her own.
"Think of cowboys, and how all young people idealize them," said Foss's wife, Cornelia Foss, who is a painter and who compensates for her husband's diminished vigor he has Parkinson's with her own.
From 1989 onwards, Kureishi exhibits an intensifying concern with fanatical Islam and the role of the writer as an agent of freedom, someone who compensates for the "poverty of imagination", or failure "to be human", displayed in the political realm.
