Bialosky has several books of poetry to her name, and her writing glows with insight, as when the likable if melancholy Edward reflects that in their early years Holly "made him exceedingly happy, even though being happy caused him pain". But there is a curious narrative insistence on his fundamental decency, as if we could not like him otherwise.
To read "How Literature Saved My Life" is to experience a kind of cognitive dissonance, caused by Shields's curious insistence on announcing what he's doing, or planning to do, while never actually attempting to do any such thing.
In 1901, just as in 1981, White House secretaries used to giggle at their boss's curious insistence on penning correspondence he could well have dictated.
Sooner than later, we'll want to puzzle over the God's curious insistence on the radical freedom of creation -- its inhabitants and the volatile earth itself; but for now, let's attend to the business of our intimate connection with one another and to the suffering caused by human failure.
Even when Thomson seems off the mark, as in his now fashionable insistence on psychologizing Hitchcock's creativity — a curious allegation to level at a director who worked his magic mostly as a coolheaded technician — he's writing in a mode of passion rather than polemic.
This is a curious reading of the DSM, given the latter's insistence on its own nature as providing a medical nomenclature, and as aetiologically neutral (American Psychiatric Association, 1994: xvii xviii).
Red was an old alcoholic who talked trash nonstop, wore outrageously large knee pads, and had a curious glamour around him and his creaky game; in his insistence on getting the ball, there was a suggestion of long-past glory, which he could still, now and then, approach.
At the same time, the Court's insistence that equal protection analysis turns on the basis of a closed category of "fundamental rights" involves a curious value judgment.
