Other pieces by Mr. Pruitt trace "cool" back to slavery, when masking emotions -- staying cool -- was a survival tactic.
Instead of masking emotions with alcohol, the masters learned to recognize what they were feeling -- whether it was fear, sadness, anger or happiness -- and to allow themselves to experience it, express it and deal with it in a healthier way, for example, by talking or writing about it or going off by themselves and yelling or crying.
And because he doubts his worth and authenticity, he begins controlling his inner experience -- smothering spontaneity, masking emotion, diverting creativity into robotic routine".
Who else has this kind of fun?" Brusquely, as if masking emotion, Mr. Bradlee concluded, "She was a spectacular dame and I loved her very much".
A little later, he suggests that this child "begins controlling his inner experience — smothering spontaneity, masking emotion, diverting creativity into robotic routine".
That he's a specialist at masking emotion while she can't help but show every shade of feeling lends the pairing interest and pathos.
Parents who believe emotions are dangerous tend to mask emotional expressions, perhaps in an attempt to shield their child from observing negative emotionality [ 82].
Further, as parents are clients, educators engage in emotional labour to mask true emotions from them, which may make parents' accounts unreliable[ 56].
Coughlin, the Giants' coach, does not mask his emotions well, and usually does not care to.
Mr. Hampton, a singer-songwriter originally from Houston, has a knack for using simple language to mask complicated emotions.
