Though his recent ancestors, as far as he knows, did not wear primitive costumes of wild animals, Mr. Fréger said, he has never felt domesticated.
That convention, Ms. Temkin felt, had domesticated the paintings in a way that obscured how radical they were, what a "profound break with the past," and last fall she ordered the frames removed in one of her first acts as the Modern's new chief curator of painting and sculpture.
At a time when literary sex was still thought of in terms of Molly Bloom's mythopoetical earthiness, Lady Chatterley's inflated lyricism or Henry Miller's grubby adventurism, the Dirty Young Men were trying to make readers see and feel sex as a domesticated form of daemonic possession, as ordinary and dangerous as a fire lighted to clear some brush.
It's fair to say, that most children feel a special connection to the animal world, and the domesticated segment of that world consisting primarily of dogs, cats and the like, tends to enthusiastically reciprocate.
The inherent refinement of Mr. Long's touch, always evident, now prevails with a result that feels corralled, downsized and domesticated.
And don't feel bad if it turns out you shouldn't own any living thing, domesticated or otherwise.
In "Domesticated," though, you grasp the basic argument so early that you start to feel that the play doesn't really develop as it goes along; it just gets louder.
I feel very upset about what happened, but generally regarding Benjamin's reaction of self-defense, he was really a sort of a domesticated wild animal, but he had a wild reaction of self-preservation when he felt threatened.
With its 2 3 scale the model feels tiny and toylike, sanitized, domesticated.
With its 2 3 scale the model feels tiny and toylike, sanitised, domesticated.
