Under Elizabeth Whyte's subtle and straightforward direction, Mr. Roche, a tall, lean man with thinning hair and piercing eyes, holds his audience with a soft-voiced, conversational narration that never indulges in sentiment or even emotion.
It's exciting, unhurried, conversational and capable of high and low sentiments.
His writing was often an entertainment itself: conversational prose that conveyed a bracing disdain for sentiment, a clear eye for meretricious art, rapier cuts for pretentious fools and fine-tuned praise for artistry, all in a monologue -- and sometimes in an invented dialogue with a character he dubbed Stanley.
Through conversational AI, it might be able to recognize sentiment.
Ocean's songwriting uses descriptive narratives, dense metre, surrealistic imagery, empathic sentiments, deadpan humor, overt metaphors, and conversational devices.
Machine learning approaches to sentiment have become commonplace for interpreting intent in conversational interfaces and making mood-appropriate product recommendations, among other things.
** Whatever you think of the sentiment, you have to love the prose, with its easy, conversational manner.
Emma Pearse of the American newspaper The Village Voice has the same sentiments, stating that it is "a little edgier, trancier, and more conversational" compared to Parachutes.
But this new conversational and direct style of writing did away with old-fashioned romantic language and high sentiment.
