The hero of the earlier novel was also a brooder, but levity was provided by his (and seemingly Mr O'Neill's) love of cricket and its power to create a community.
Knausgaard senior was a brooder and a stickler for rules who left his children in a permanent state of anxiety.
Commercial brooder houses may be very large, having several brooder units, underfloor heat or heat lamps, fan ventilation, automatic waterers and feeders, and large doors through which tractors and litter-removing equipment can pass.
After a few brief swigs of colostrum, they are transferred to the brooder, where an electric heat lamp comforts them and they are soon nuzzling the great, many-teated breast of science and drinking an elixir of terramycin, skim milk, and concentrated vim.
A red-diaper baby and ex-boxer who lives a luxe New York life after years of shady work as a fixer for the Mob, he is a bruiser and a brooder, intent on getting his life straight, or, at least, straighter.
He is a brooder by trade, not a reveller, and that served him well in films like "The Insider" and "Master and Commander" (pasted together, those titles pretty much sum up his appeal).
He wrote, "The whole thing is a tornado that won't hold still long enough for me to see what's useful and what isn't," adding, "I've brooded and brooded about all this till my brooder is sore.
Nato Thompson says that Paglen was initially a "brooder" — prone to smoking in corners and ignoring people he didn't know well — but has "totally shifted" with time, growing "very West Coast and hang-loose-y," especially since he took up surfing, six years ago.
The night that I saw the play, Thompson played Mott as proud and defiant, a tempestuous brooder and malcontent who is also blighted by the craven timidity that lurks within all addicts.
Since re-emerging two years ago after some time out of the spotlight, he's become the great brooder of the modern country era — maybe the only brooder.
