The behind-the-scenes view of the extravagant emotions that make and break a pure celebrity?
If there is one natural anomaly he has recorded, it is the extravagant emotions that serpents arouse in Georgians.
At first glance, it's hard to reconcile the sparseness of Fontane's plots, the way he prefers to linger over what he calls "the circumstantial," with the extravagant emotions his work has provoked in so many critics and writers over the years.
The director Bert I. Gordon (who seems to have been my primordial auteur) didn't do much in the way of character development or psychological subtlety, but he sure knew how to make a visual metaphor — to convey extravagant emotions, indeed, the mental overdrive of youth itself, in simple images.
No one was more cowed and more disorientated by it all than the Queen, who found that her own rank had been decisively trumped by the nuclear fission of Diana's new global celebrity in death, and by the extravagant emotions of an angry public.
He has no need of witty one-liners to win us over, has no call for action-hero dramatics with which to knock our socks off, and there are no sentimental, extravagant displays of emotion with which to tug at our own.
The three Dickinson children, unlike their strait-laced parents, were all prey to "extravagant passions," their emotions "molten and rumbling underground".
But opera is a world I feel very comfortable in, and I think the extravagant exaggeration of emotions and gesture are quite good for helping me realize what's happening.
