As David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, wrote on The Daily Beast during the past week, "The background to so much of the politics of the past four years is the mood of apocalyptic terror that has gripped so much of the American upper class".
The episode makes use of strong color cues and unusual camera angles in particular, the brown color palette and low-angle shots used to represent the character of Leland Palmer have been described by Helen Wheatley, author of Gothic Television, as creating "a mood of domestic terror", which serves to cue the audience to his eventual outing as his daughter's killer.
Brontë's themes and moods — the modulations of terror and wit, the matter-of-fact recitation of events giving way to feverish breathlessness — are carefully preserved, though her narrative has been somewhat scrambled.
The gas jets of the footlights and those overhead suspended in the flies were turned low to create a mood of mystery and terror.
Look at her eyes … That's got you in the mood for the coming nights of terror as your EPG teems with wanton wraiths and blood-drenched abomination in celebration of Halloween.
I don't have one work of art about 9/11 indelibly inscribed on my mind, so I'll nominate, obliquely, the 2006 TV on the Radio album "Return to Cookie Mountain," which somehow maps onto the mood of the Global War on Terror period for me.
It was a cry of terror that seemed to symbolize the mood of that era: the world was in chaos, and viewers like Mary were tragically vulnerable to the media's influence.
I have never been a hysterical person, and so at first I misread these tremors as mere mood; I was in the clutches of a giddy sort of terror, I thought.
I was in a foul mood when the movie was over; after a few weeks, the novelist Jonathan Lethem attacked "The Dark Knight" in a Times op-ed as a terrorizing movie in a time of terror.
Added to the dispute is the mood of anti-Arab sentiment after the terror attack on the World Trade Center in 2001.
