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Carr's forte as a writer, it might be said, is the faint air of wistfulness that always attends even his most comic scenes, the barely disguised feeling that, despite the best efforts of its cast, life will never turn out quite how they want it to, that disappointment lies just around the corner and that happiness needs to be grasped at in the split second before it turns into stark disillusion.
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This aspiring writer was at the time also a baroquely brainy kid, busy disguising feeling behind all manner of clutter.
Many popular people also have insecurities and self-doubts but their outward appearance and attitude disguises feelings of imperfection.
They go for a walk in the city, wearing silly disguises; feeling liberated that they don't have to be themselves, they let their guard down and escape their troubles for a while.
If Santana was frustrated, he disguised his feelings.
I was distinctly underwhelmed, but disguised my feelings by scoffing down an Amazin' Raisin bar from my Cadbury's selection box.
They stick to factual matters and flatten their tone of voice as much as possible, disguising all feeling.
The use of projected Brechtian titles doesn't disguise a feeling that some of the scenes they preface would have creaked long before Hansberry's day.
And if their movie is a hit, well, they are naturally pleased, but also a tad apologetic, carefully disguising any feeling of pride in self-deprecating humor.
Wodehouse's correspondence is often clad in the epistolary equivalent of Bertie's heliotrope pyjamas, carefully buttoned up to disguise true feeling.
He consoles himself with an old refrain: "There is at least a thorough keeping in what I write — not a line that betrays a principle or disguises a feeling.
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