In otherwords, Flaubert was a master of realismnot because he reproduced the worldaround him, but because he used languageto create an alternate existence, a distillatewhose emotional gravity transcendsthat of life itself.
It is dawning on me, as time goes by and Zoe starts to come home for shorter periods and to call less often, that the center of gravity of her life has shifted away.
And there were a few moments when the gravity of real life poked through the artifice: Kate McKinnon reprised Hillary Clinton, singing the late Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," and doing it straight, not for laughs.
Supporting this fantasy of turning the clock back ("tock-tick, tock-tick") is a photographic flick-book at the end of the novel, allowing the reader to make a man's falling body fly up, up, up towards the top of a World Trade Center tower, defying the gravity of real life.
Fighting the gravity of human life and leaning for support on church pillars, Man seeks further as chanting begins.
Yet, the Internet has never quite captured the emotional gravity of real-life engagement, and keeps tripping up multi-million dollar campaigns designed to inject life into an otherwise passive electorate.
It's one thing to understand the gravity of a life-changing issue, but another to stay vigilant about it.
Not excluding those without a child, as some people truly understand the gravity of raising a life, regardless of parenting status.
Montgomery Schuyler, one of the Monadnock's most enthusiastic defenders, argued that the Monadnock's lack of ornament was not a lack of art, but rather "radiated the gravity of modern business life".
It marked his fifth triumph in the feature film category at the ASC awards, following wins for Children of Men, The Tree of Life, Gravity and Birdman.
