He was given 15 minutes of weekly therapy and heavy doses of Haldol, an antipsychotic drug that left his body rigid and his emotions flat.
Canty's urgent, at times impressionistic prose generates moment after moment of intense emotion, falling flat only occasionally, and his characters are self-aware enough to keep the story from sinking into melodrama.
Merwin's "I go among these with my face down" is graceless, and the emotion falls flat; it may reproduce io vo tra costor con bassa fronte more literally than Mandelbaum's "among these shades I go in sadness" does, but the latter gets the emotional and situational reality (and the rhythm) more vividly.
Contrary to our claims of obsession, Professor Davis believes that "the generation now is very low key — the emotions are flat — compared to movies from the '50s, when people look sentimental".
The 37th-ranked Austrian is riding an eight-match winning streak which includes winning the Eastbourne tune-up appears empowered witune-up appears playing with plempoweredositive emotion, and her flat strokes play with on grass, making heachhe pick to reach her second straight Swin quarterfisal.
The characters on the whole are "flat": emotions, motives, and personalities are seldom mentioned.
"People ask me why does that happen, and I'm like this," Fitzpatrick said, holding his hand out to indicate that his emotions are a flat line.
These social VR experiences will fall flat without emotion that's obscured by headsets or left out of static avatars.
And the orchestra missed Adès's undertow of dark emotion — the big E-flat-minor chord at the end, which should have been in the players' blood, came and went without causing a shudder.
Here, within the flat-lined emotion of this production, Mendes can do very little.
