For his part, H.P. was fueled by an equally intense compulsion to write up these intensely absurd and homicidal doodle-stories starring G.C., becoming even more prolific once he realized Lawrence could turn them into technically impressive comics.
For his part, H.P. was fueled by an equally intense compulsion to write up the intensely absurd and homicidal doodle-stories starring G.C., becoming even more prolific once he realised Lawrence could turn them into technically impressive comics.
Nevertheless, the notebooks and manuscripts provide an intimate glimpse of the author's heretofore undocumented life — a life marked by ongoing filial resentment, self-deception, and tendencies toward seclusion buoyed by periods of intense sexual compulsion.
His courtship of Lydia Beardsall, from a genteel family that had come sharply down in the world, resembled a D. H. Lawrence short story: intense physical desire worked its compulsions across classes, and marriage was the quick result.
The paintings would be silly if they weren't so intense and felt, and painted with such compulsion.
Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot, said that walking on the Moon gives you an instant global consciousness, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it, that international politics look so petty.
A study by DiFranza et al. [ 49] also supported a strong emotional component by revealing the compulsion to smoke and nicotine dependence as "more intense than wanting, more intrusive and difficult to ignore… if ignored, needing does not abate, it intensifies" (p. 213).
Mr. Fassbender's disturbingly intense interpretation of the role soon makes clear that Brandon's obsession is a compulsion rather than a source of enjoyment.
Whether we are talking about killer or a CEO who was managing an enterprise when conditions turned sour, the compulsion to explain and to differentiate wickedness from misfortune is intense and unrelenting.
Lavery does little to explain Ralph's compulsion, except to have him reveal, during one of his unbearably intense monologues, that his father beat him when he was a child.
Her descriptions of the landscape, as well as of the intense cold and its effects on the body – intestines feeling like "a frosted coil of rope", the compulsion to keep swallowing to avoid one's throat glazing over – are remarkably vivid, but the structural patterning of the book also adds a metaphysical aspect.
