Lately, I've been looking for books that both recognize a turgid, doubtful state of mind and (somehow) make it seem possible that one's own doubtful turgidity can turn into something strong and beautiful and good.
— Peter Schjeldahl Lately, I've been looking for books that both recognize a turgid, doubtful state of mind and (somehow) make it seem possible that one's own doubtful turgidity can turn into something strong and beautiful and good.
After spending many hours visiting the former homes of lauded writers, such as the Emily Dickinson museum in Amherst, Anne Trubek, who began research for her A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses in a suitably doubtful state of mind, concluded that "you see the profound emotional experience that visitors have in being in the room where, for instance, Emily Dickinson wrote.
This number is doubtful, bearing in mind that the Song had only 120,000 soldiers fighting on the entire front.
"Again, when the mind is doubtful, when the mind drinks deep of doubt-poison, the senses have no capacity to inject faith into the mind.
Once in the water, at 5.30am on Tuesday, he battled jellyfish, effluent, and the dark, doubtful corners of his own mind, to emerge, triumphant, 10 and a half hours later.
It is doubtful that Paul had in mind the fanciful feathers, the gold sequins or the Napoleonic-style headgear, church hats all, that dozens of women donned for a contest at the signing of a new book, "Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats" (Doubleday), the authors noted.
The power of naturalization, when viewed in connection with the judicial powers and cases, is, in my mind, of very doubtful extent.
But he said he sensed that the players were in the right frame of mind, and it seemed doubtful that Steinbrenner's timing would serve as motivation, anyway.
