But she's as riveting as the heroine of a 1940s film noir: her luster, her urgency and her enigma exert equal force.
"The Kulovas and Ivan Balog exploited their victim by keeping her identification documents and deceiving her, thereby exerting control over her for their own ends".
"The Kulovas and Ivan Balog exploited their victim by keeping her identification documents and deceiving her, thereby exerting control over her for their own ends". He said the case had involved authorities in several jurisdictions working together to prosecute the traffickers.
"Her smile exerts its natural evocative powers in him and breathes a vitality into him," he wrote.
One or two of the friends I have persuaded to read Hazzard's work have found the prose mannered, but once you tune to its wavelength, her style exerts a dreamlike spell.
Researchers Rotton and Kelly calculated that at birth, a 55 kg mother holding her baby exerts 12 million times more tidal force on the child than the moon because she is close and comparatively big.
She seems to share a little of my past & my present-not very much, it is true none of the multifarious activities which jostle around in my life, except the part which pertains to Shakespeare, for this is where she exerts her possessive copyright.
And so she becomes a very active participant in her own story where they want her to do something, they want her to exert leverage on Sam.
This year, in an interview published by the Paris Review – conducted by her publishers – Ferrante said of her decision to remain anonymous that it forced her to consciously add herself into her story, "exerting herself to be truer than she could be in the photos of a Sunday supplement, at a book launch, at a literary festival … receiving a literary prize".
Democrats, as well as some mainstream Republicans, had expected her to exert a moderating influence on her father.
