And yet, like a fine Proustian sentence, she will have gathered time and harvested memory, lived through a million bodily shocks and mental joys and arrived at the perfect embodiment of herself right now.
But the swearing and bodily functions aren't for shock value, as in an episode of "South Park".
(Matilda) Some women described feeling shocked at how basic bodily functions were no longer in their control, such as passing their first bowel movement and unexpected episodes of incontinence.
The film didn't try to build a new mythology or dazzle with effects; instead it was a lighthearted confection with recognizable jokes about bodily functions and child rearing meant to comfort more than shock — a kind of B-movie comedy for the modern age.
Explicit Content – Content that depicts overly graphic images, blood, open wounds, bodily fluids, surgeries, medical procedures, or gore that is intended to shock or scare.
Importantly, this sensitivity seems to extend to others' feelings – they are better at recognising emotions in others' faces – and they are also quicker to learn to avoid a threat, such as a small electric shock in the lab, perhaps because those more intense bodily feelings saturate their memories, making the aversion more visceral.
The koan is a mental version of the bodily brutalities of training: resistant, frustrating, impossible to assimilate, it is meant to shock the monk into sudden insight.
Both full-time activists, there is an almost unworldly innocence about their revolutionary idealism; Oldfield, 37, doesn't talk about anger, but about the "physical, bodily pain" of seeing inequality all around him, and is still reeling from the shock of watching TV in prison, which he hadn't done for over a decade.
She's terrific as a self-destructive housewife addicted to drugs and bad behaviour, and it's not just due to the shock of seeing her in a context other than being a fake-ditz talking about bodily functions (though of course she did tease this kind of departure in Sarah Polley's Take this Waltz).
Cinemagoers who just two decades earlier had been shocked to hear a toilet flushing in Psycho, were now exposed to a myriad of bodily effluents, as studio execs began taking comedic cues from their teenage sons.
Bikinis and bodily functions.
