Watching them with trusting eyes, she felt a surge of warm emotion: "What magnificent soldiers they are!" In that moment she saw before her, as if it were yesterday, all the officers and soldiers from the nearby unit who had looked after her family like blood brothers ever since her son returned with distinction from his own military service.
This approach, together with a predominating impression of cool intellectuality rather than warm emotion in the body of his work, established Balanchine, to an outside view, as a slightly remote and superhuman personality.
It is lush with flowing melody, full of warm emotion and highly dramatic in its mercurial shifts through a dynamic range from fortissimo to triple p. It is so versatile that Rachmaninoff, Bachlike, made secular reuse of some of it, incorporating an "alliluiya" passage from the climactic "Blessed Art Thou, O Lord" into his "Symphonic Dances" of 1940.
All this suggested that she lacked "warm emotion," that her absence of defining relationships was perhaps even a sign of "vice," to borrow some terms from Hofstadter.
"Intellect is pitted against feeling, on the ground that it is somehow inconsistent with warm emotion," he wrote.
Like Sugar Ray, Uncle Kracker was lovable instead of menacing; his songs may have had risqué moments, but they encouraged warm emotion.
The Angeles has long been the leading quartet on the West Coast, and it plays with the distinctively American virtues of warm emotion; rich, powerful tone; and faultless technical command.
Daley Padley, better known under his chuckle-worthy alias Hot Since 82, is a master of warm, emotion-driven house music.
I myself felt a pull at the "warm emotions" when the Turkish Parliament voted to abolish the death penalty and give linguistic and civil rights to Kurds, in order to conform to the moral requirements of the E.U., which Turkey hopes to join.
He added that "the nature of the Euro-beast is such that at best it creates rational enthusiasts, like myself, and 'Europe' only appeals to the warm emotions at unique moments -- i.e. 1989-91".
