EM: I never feel articulate enough or wise...so I'll stop here.
The plot gathers in energy and pace, but these characters aren't as fascinating as Devanna, and their emotions can feel overly articulated, their dialogue stilted with metaphors bordering on melodrama.
"You realise that there are people who want you to feel and articulate for them," he says.
His blend of chutzpah and dynamism seduced many voters who felt he articulated their own exasperation with an ageing, sclerotic political class.
The troubling message behind Philip Seymour Hoffman's death, which we all feel without articulating, is that it was unnecessary and we know that something could be done.
Sometimes there is a hankering, more felt than articulated, for types with snub noses, shortened upper lips, eyes set on a slight diagonal, and petulant expressions that inspire one to offer them a dish of cream.
In an oft-quoted passage, he wrote his own passionate definition of this consciousness, urging his belief that "class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from (and usually opposed to) theirs.
But I felt pretty articulate, so it was a bit upsetting.
The time has come, he feels, to articulate a coherent ethical, contemplative, and philosophical vision of Buddhism for our age.
More than this, Spurr said, literature, especially poetry, helped you to imagine how others felt, by articulating what you felt yourself.
I know because I happened to be in the passenger seat of his car when such thoughts were on his mind and when, for whatever unforeseeable reason, he felt comfortable articulating them.
