The marriage of Disney wholesomeness to Marvel's edgy, brooding, down-and-dirty comic characters inspired endless mashups (e.g., "Spider-Mouse" and "the Incredible Donald Dulk").
Unlike the manic-depressive Leonard, who veers between high-wire ups and brooding downs, this novel very much occupies the safe middle ground; there is nothing very bravura about it, though Mr. Eugenides's ability to make us care about Madeleine's romantic travails and at least one of her suitors results in a story that steadily gains in emotional intensity and amplitude as it rumbles along.
And there is the other self, ugly and massive, brooding upside down over her drooping white nest.
Over the years, our house became adorned with his acquisitions, large pieces by Lester Johnson, of black military men, their features hazy, marching with purpose, or of the portrait of a man in brown, his forehead thickly brooding, staring down at us with disdain.
Bring the brood down to Ponteland Park for the Great Easter Egg Hunt (in aid of charity Legacare) with rides, bonnet parade, mad hatters' party and prizes for best fancy dress (11am-3pm, West Road, Ponteland, visitnorthumberland.com).
And we don't just mean drive a handful of oversized SUVs and several jelly bean-shaped minivans; we mean bring the whole brood down for the day with a cooler full of snacks and drinks, the kids' strollers, a folding changing table and a few hundred toys…In short, bring everything you can imagine packing on the average trip to Grandma's.
King Krule, sings brooding, stripped-down songs in a gravelly baritone made all the more surprising by the fact that he's only just turned nineteen.
The soloist is no longer a brooding poet weighed down by yearnings and dreams but an Olympic athlete leaping over hurdles ever higher.
I sit in silence after that, head down, brooding over my answer, wondering what comes next.
In Solenopsis invicta moving the brood up and down along temperature gradients does not seem to depend on the time of day or photoperiod.
