Last summer, we would have had a mental grace period on seeing a bottle priced at 600-some francs; we could have enjoyed those 30 seconds of self-delusion before we did the math.
Notwithstanding the cringing woman in "The Gross Clinic," what you might call this state of mental grace applies equally to Eakins's men and women: the great portrait of his wife with his setter dog (1884-89), even though it presents her slender body as sunken and sallow, shows her eyes as piercing and forceful.
In this riveting if conventional movie, directed by Morten Tyldum from Graham Moore's screenplay, Benedict Cumberbatch plays Turing's stunning mental power, bungling social grace, and naievete so compellingly, his demise at age 41 supplies an added irony to the history of his work in cracking the Nazi enigma code, using a machine that would be a forebear to the modern computer.
A form of repartee, wit implies both a mental agility and a linguistic grace that is very much a product of conscious art.
Opening with a sobering quotation from Andrew Solomon's 1998 confession of suicidal depression in The New Yorker, "Helen" dives into this painful mental illness with sensitivity and grace.
Thus we do recognize a mental component in DiMaggio's grace, in the beautiful and devastatingly effective motions of Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali and even in the sheer force of Shaq pushing through to the basket.
Then people wonder why their kids turn out to be mental midgets with no social grace and an inability to function in the real world.
I'm a twisted victim of arrested development or I am graced with eternal mental youth: In any case, quail makes me quail.
It's a mental, physical, and emotional aligning with grace that allows us to see what's really here: an abundance of love and beauty.
And given that the story involves Charles Manson, Leonard Bernstein, Republican fund-raisers, parental abuse, mental illness and a cataclysmic fall from grace, as well as some of the greatest music of the 20th century, it's a story well worth reading.
I need to inhibit the representation of my mental state and to excite that of Grace's in order to carry out the task (in this example, the task requires me to assess her morality when putting the sugar labeled "toxic" into her friend's coffee).
