The issue, I suspect, is one not of Herzog selling out but of Hollywood wanting to buy in, and Bale duly serves up a chipper portrait of courage under pressure, remaining fresh-faced even as his cheeks wither to a monkish gauntness.
The gauntness, the waves of intensity, the smarting humor: they all made sense, as if his duty, wherever he trod, were to spread a little Hamletry.
Reduced by the ship's food to gauntness, writer is overjoyed when the ship finally arrives at Penang, a stone's throw from Singapore, their destination.
For all the gauntness of its concrete-and-steel framework, Brasília cannot he compared to a skeleton so much as to an organism that is taking on additional cells all over itself at once, like a colony of coral that is breaking through the surface as an atoll.
Yet mockery was stilled, for a minute, by the haunted eyes of the winner, the Russian Valeriy Borchin, as he stood on the podium later, his gauntness telling of the mortification that had led him to this point; he clutched his medal and his bunch of flowers as if emerging from a cloistral seminary into the light.
Such archness is kind of reassuring, especially given Vivian's gallows gauntness and pallor.
Those big basset eyes have a gaze so hard and sharp it could cut glass, and the slight gauntness that makes Mr. Hawkes seem vulnerable in other roles just looks whittled down for action in "Winter's Bone".
It showed a woman of mournfully beautiful gauntness, jacket draped over her shoulder.
His features were familiar, but they lacked the compelling gauntness or the special light in the eyes that had transfixed a generation of bobbysoxers.
In Seamus Heaney's "A Sofa in the Forties" we believe in the real sofa – "the carved, curved ends, / Black leatherette and ornate gauntness of it" – which is why we believe in its various metaphysical transformations: Potentially heavenbound, earthbound for sure, Among things that might add up or let you down.
As Chili and Edie pursue Linda's contract, they drop in on the Viper Room, and they visit the Lakers at the Staples Center, where they sit next to Steven Tyler, of Aerosmith, who has the frightening gauntness of a medieval hermit, and who is received as an eternal god graciously lingering on earth.
