Tóibín compares its atmosphere to "Wuthering Heights," but also points to its vein of humor — the tragedy that is so deeply present in the premise of the story is treated with a surprising lightness: "You get a sense that it isn't merely grief stricken, that underneath it there's some edge of dark laughter".
The seven soldiers range in emotion from deeply present to downright frigid, like Phillip, Lindsey's husband, who comes home for two weeks of R&R but still has to be coaxed into a kiss by his wife, who says, "I was expecting more fireworks and boom".
The bishop's theology is neither mystifying nor contradictory, and in fact represents one version of a view held by many Christians and other religious people: namely, that God is deeply present in and through the events of the world -- often inscrutably, but always powerfully and lovingly -- and though we cannot for the life of us see how, even catastrophes include divine presence and power.
For those of us who live more amidst the hustle and bustle of modern technically tethered lifestyles, we can still connect directly with nature by simply looking at the sky, or being deeply present to the flow of sensations or breath within our bodies.
Then we give heuristic arguments to understand more deeply the presented method (see also [58] for a quicker view on this estimate).
And like diaries, most blogs tend to be deeply personal, presenting the keeper's point of view on one or more topics.
The coastal plain and the Danakil Plain are part of the East African Rift System and are sharply delimited on the west by the eastern escarpment of the plateau, which, although deeply eroded, presents a formidable obstacle to travelers from the coast.
But the speech was also deeply nativist, presenting an ideal where "Central Europe" leads the rest of the West in their fight against a whole host of foreign threats, from "Brussels bureaucrats" to "globalists;" from "millions of immigrants" to "the threat of terrorism".
And so our hero, Jacob Slichter, drummer for the Minneapolis power-pop band Semisonic, finds himself deeply saddened when presented with a platinum record, signifying sales of over a million copies of Semisonic's second album, "Feeling Strangely Fine" (1998).
