And now, as my 13-month-old daughter comes barreling toward my breasts for comfort and nourishment, I occasionally feel an emotional tug somewhere deep inside.
Home suggests an emotional place – somewhere you truly belong, but I, like many other TCKs, never quite feel at home anywhere.
It's easy to sell to someone with dark tastes, sure, but what's most refreshing about this willfully insane plot is how incredibly Elkin is able to twist the dark with the absurd, and the absurd with a strange sense of emotional depth, somewhere on the register of David Foster Wallace in his ability to transcend via description.
The Tone Scale is used in auditing to place your overall attitude and emotional state somewhere on a quantifiable scale, which runs from +40 (Serenity of Being) to -40 (Total Failure).
Wayward, inviting, honest, confessional and wistful, Pet Sounds wasn't just an album; it was an emotional panic room – somewhere to huddle when life got too much.
The moment was powerfully emotional, the effect somewhere between that of Michelangelo's Pietà and a black-widow spider in its postcoital mode.
At a moment when American movies seem to be suffering from arrested intellectual and emotional development -- somewhere around the mental age of 12, to judge from this summer's crop of cloddish action films -- these movies seem to be longing for a lost maturity, a way out of the impasse of enforced infantilism.
I'm sure it's a very hard and emotional time leaving somewhere.
I suspect girls like my daughter sense that the song's emotional landscape is adolescent – somewhere over the horizon, not yet visible, but faintly palpable.
For much of that time I was still grappling to understand the actual meaning of Garnet's journey, but I suspected that it might lead somewhere more emotional – more human – than a literal pot of gold.
