Melville wrote, in "Moby-Dick," that for all the associations the color white has "with whatever is sweet, and honorable, and sublime, there yet lurks an elusive something in the innermost idea of this hue, which strikes more of panic to the soul than that redness which affrights in blood".
Month by month through these screenings, we witnessed her life, her ideas, her innermost thoughts.
As a sociologist and political economist, Davies is uneasy about the idea that our innermost emotions could be quantified as data.
As a sociologist and political economist, Will is uneasy about the idea that our innermost emotions could be quantified as data.
Earle has the same facility as Springsteen for taking even the most obvious lyrical or musical ideas and images and extracting their innermost essence in a way that transforms them, retaining the integrity of the influences chosen even as individuality is accentuated and commerciality guaranteed.
Shakespeare also understood something that has been revealed in our own lifetimes, when a major event — the fall of the Soviet Union, the collapse of the housing market, a startling election result — throws a garish light on an unnerving fact: even those in the innermost circles of power very often have no idea what is about to happen.
Yes, the images conjured up by his scripts can be stone genius (personally I'm still haunted by his chattering army of Malkoviches) - but the ideas themselves, the relentless paring away to the innermost nooks of the psyche, a disgust at the fakeness of resolution, are to-the-bone literary, a fusion of Beckett and Phillip K Dick and the ornate maximalism of David Foster Wallace.
But the idea that he is the hapless victim of his innermost circle is not just far-fetched.
Let us not therefore discount the possibility that our idea of the common good must evolve to reach our innermost selves, as well as to include everyone.
Director Christopher Nolan stated that the idea behind the film was "a person who would confront his innermost fear and then attempt to become it".
