I went to the meet expecting a scene of American seething, full of the half-suppressed violence that Americans thwarted in their beliefs or their hobbies half-suppress so well.
As for those charges of stylistic passing, Larsen's prose is modernist, with its rhythms of half-suppressed, half-conscious agitation and its psychological ruptures.
I would see The Face several times with several different women when the subject of Jian came up – a half-suppressed deflation, a furtive darkening.
Throughout, their half-suppressed sighs and whispers sound like a dialogue between audience and stage, and their cheers at the end make a fine tribute.
"One of the things I like about Terry Winter's writing is that his characters really are complex," says Michael Pitt, who plays Darmody with a compelling combination of vulnerability and half-suppressed rage.
Soon, he and Nancy find that their half-suppressed, guilty wish that Mrs. Connelly would go away becomes more overt and less guilty, and they sit in a bar fantasizing about doing her in.
On the trail of forgotten, half-suppressed struggles, Anarchy's Brief Summer offers a unique portrait of a revolutionary movement that is largely unknown outside Spain.
Suddenly I was being given electric shocks to my temples!" She gives a half-suppressed, ironic laugh, and then goes on to describe her torture in a matter-of-fact, almost clinical manner.
Across the capital on Thursday, an artist raised his two bandaged hands in the air and let out a sound that was half sob, half roar.
A half-choked sob escaped from Ms. Spacek.
At his first dwarf convention, the author hears a teenager half-sobbing, half-laughing.
