An unsettling atmosphere lingers throughout, created by the puppetry.
Eventually, the symphony is able to escape into a sustained lyrical episode, but a traumatized atmosphere lingers: you keep waiting for more blows to fall.
Such is the uncertainty surrounding Hull, with persistent rumours about a takeover and the owner's deteriorating health, that a strange atmosphere lingered amid the celebrations.
A little of the old atmosphere lingers at noon, when construction workers scarf down prosciutto-and-soppressata panini and beer, but in the evening the joint has had to adapt to the times.
Though it is unfinished and awkwardly constructed, its dreamlike atmosphere lingers in the mind with the overtones of Teika's poetry; dreams of the past were indeed the refuge of the medieval romancers, who modeled their language on the Genji monogatari, though it was now archaic, and borrowed their themes and characters from the Heian masterpieces.
The subdued atmosphere reflected lingering diplomatic and political tensions and the backdrop of continued killing in Iraq.
Sure, there was a ticket vending machine, and you ate at a stainless-steel counter, but the atmosphere invited lingering with a beer or two, and the owner didn't mind our taking plenty of pictures.
And that's the problem with Giorgione: for all the traces of his brilliance that survive, his early death and apparently slow working pace mean that he is mostly an influence, an atmosphere, a lingering whisper of pastoral sadness and passing beauty.
Hovering in the ether of B minor, it can and should ooze atmosphere and lingering Viennese coffee house wistfulness.
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