Much of the conversational space — this can't be a surprise — is filled with hesitations, backing and filling, plans to talk about something another time.
It's her attempt to make order of chaos, and she delivers it with hesitations and digressions, nervous exasperation and, occasionally, cleareyed passion.
Much of the conversational space this can't be a surprise is filled with hesitations, backing and filling, plans to talk about something another time.
It was reviewed, somewhat favorably, if often with hesitations and qualifications, and then disappeared after four weeks only to become the subject of a passionate campaign to have it reshown to critics for awards voting.
Shakespeare hedges the patriotic fantasy of English greatness in Henry V with hesitations and qualifications about the validity of the myth of glorious nationhood offered by the Agincourt story.
All of which adds tension and resonance to Mallon's pages, already crackling with hesitations and vulnerabilities, obsessions and aspirations, with reminders of the lost art of literary telepathy, of the aching, attenuated rhythm of a written correspondence.
