Undset's masterly depiction of Jenny's evolving emotions makes one realize that one is in the presence of an acute observer of the way lovers behave with, think about and react to each other.
With a 94 score on movie review aggregator Metacritc, Pixar's inventive, deeply moving look at the evolving emotions inside an 11-year-old girl rated as the second-best-reviewed movie of 2015, trailing only "Carol". Early on, I thought it might have a shot at a best picture nomination too.
Critic Roberta Reeder notes that the early poems always attracted large numbers of admirers: "For Akhmatova was able to capture and convey the vast range of evolving emotions experienced in a love affair, from the first thrill of meeting, to a deepening love contending with hatred, and eventually to violent destructive passion or total indifference.
More broadly, a large body of research now exists that shows we humans are capable of consciously evolving our emotions, thoughts and attitudes in positive, authentic directions, when we work at it.
It didn't seem so different; it's still music, emotion, evolving images and ideas". The musician is perched on a blue-grey Swiss exercise ball at his home in Wandsworth, south London, where he lives alone and works with assistants and collaborators.
He investigates an old mystery of human evolution: why have we evolved positive emotions like gratitude, amusement, awe, and compassion that promote ethical action and are the fabric of cooperative societies?
But behind reducing Riley's emotional life to a small five-member group is the notion, going back to Charles Darwin, that all human beings share a core of evolved universal emotions (the list of which is still debated among scientists) that are comparable across continents and cultures and essential for survival.
The other thing I learned is that everyone has a different story of survival, and his or her own way of coping (or not) with a confusing array of feelings and emotions evolving through time: incredulity, closeness with strangers, sadness, rage, resignation, hope and, sometimes, indifference.
The experience was, in a way, preparation for his next post — he was installed at Trinity and St. Paul's in 2004 — because he saw how the city's emotions were evolving.
The breast cancer movement, however, has evolved into an emotion culture in which hope and optimism leave little rhetorical space for questions, criticism, or skepticism.
