"If ever I feel like exercise," he would say with a twinkle in his eye, "I go into a darkened room and lie down until the mood passes".
Our group of 12 aboard the catamaran Holly Jo set off from near the fishing village of Union Hall in expectant mood, passing dramatic cliffs and patchwork fields in 50 different shades of green and brown.
At the project's test site, www.philipglass.com/glassengine, Mr. Glass's music begins to play as horizontal bars, representing variables like date, track number and mood, pass over a vertical line running down the center of the page.
The immediacy of the Internet allows little time for reflection, and rather than let a bad mood pass, a spouse may rush to the computer and rant, which is not always wise, Ms. Darwin said.
I WANT to finish this column before a familiar mood has passed.
We rode another half hour until finally someone intuited that Clinton's mood had passed and a brave soul turned on the A.C. Clinton did not notice.
Birding was now freed from the stuffy academic halls, and the shift was reflected in the high-spirited, athletic way that Peterson and his fellow Bronx birders went chasing after the objects of their obsession, a mood they passed along to others during events like their Christmas Bird Counts and "Big Day" birding competitions.
The overall mood, despite passing joys, is increasingly poignant.
The entry conjures a dreamy, uncanny mood – after passing through a diaphanous curtain, you see dresses from between 1805 and 1855 looming spectrally in separate glass cases.
He has come to understand, he says, that the mood will pass, that by the end of Act I most of the scowls will have melted away.
