The Bogart we came to know on the screen was mature when he arrived, with compressed emotions, an economy of gesture and a compact grace in movements that were wary and self-contained, as if all the world were not a stage but a minefield.
While platforms like Facebook or LinkedIn look to tap ones like Tenor, it's clear that all these companies are seeing that figuring out a way to compress that emotion into a short window is increasingly important when it comes to messaging.
"Applause," presented on Saturday night by the Compagnie Maguy Marin at Page Auditorium, is one of Ms. Marin's sparest pieces, but it would be wrong to mistake its tightly compressed distillation of emotion for any kind of minimalism.
The storyline was branded controversial by media outlets and Lane found it hard to compress her emotions whilst filming the plot.
Within this medium, ordinary emotions are compressed together until they produce an "art emotion" — an emotion that doesn't exist in ordinary life, and is available only through the poem.
Similarly, Joan Snyder is known for personal paintings in which emotion is compressed, but she has sketched an idea for an 18-foot-long mural for the San Francisco subway.
In his music, Mr. Sciarrino often paints with the finest of brushes, hinting at deep emotion through compressed whispers and the rustling of wind.
They hold hands in a perfect Bonnie and Clyde moment, rushing to face death … A heart-wrenching depth of emotion was compressed into those panels.
Copeland's commitment to the minimal movement required by her role — to the expressiveness of her neck and her long-fingered hands — means that emotion must be compressed into the smallest gestures.
But William M. Gardner, New Hampshire's longtime secretary of state, said pride should remain the dominant emotion here, despite the compressed schedule.
