Although Vivien is seen typing Tom's manuscripts and looking over his shoulder as he works, there is no sense of how powerfully the relationship, and Eliot's persistent guilt about his emotional failures, shaped his poetry.
Mr. Bergman, typically, is harder on the men: Markus, driven by sexual jealousy and obsessed with revenge and David (his own younger self) the pusillanimous lover, are both seen as cowards and emotional failures, like the alternately clinging and bullying Henrik in "Private Confessions".
This is a claustrophobic novel of one family's emotional failure.
But over the years its uniformity has made it an emotional failure.
That's why the failure of "Listen to Me Marlon" isn't so much a matter of style or of form; it's an emotional failure.
The haunted perception of imminent emotional failure — which, typically, the more sentimental male character resists at first — colors everything that follows in precisely the way the bad faith of a crumbling relationship poisons even the most innocent exchanges.
Fontane's plots refer with striking frequency to cemeteries, graves, burials, funerals — even ghosts.The haunted perception of imminent emotional failure — which, typically, the more sentimental male character resists at first — colors everything that follows in precisely the way the bad faith of a crumbling relationship poisons even the most innocent exchanges.
Whether it's emotional neglect, failures in empathy, guilt, or more overt forms of abuse, we all unconsciously minimize or subtly excuse our parents misdeeds in an effort to maintain a relationship that is necessary for our survival.
The charges filed include quid pro quo sexual harassment, hostile working environment harassment, discrimination based on gender, retaliation, failure to prevent or correct harassment, aiding and abetting harassment, wrongful discharge, intentional infliction of emotional stress, failure to pay wages, waiting-time penalties and violations of labor and business codes.
Of course, there's a tinge of darkness, a kind of emotional wattage failure, when Ben Grimm's fiancée returns his ring, because she can't live with the idea of finding an ugly craggy monster attractive.
In their suit, Salvador Albert Corado and Albert Corado Jr., the father and brother, respectively, of manager Melyda "Mely" Corado, allege civil rights violations, battery, excessive force, negligence, infliction of emotional distress, failure to adequately train officers and conspiracy to cover up misconduct.
