Indeed, the white characters in Motown: The Musical come across as stereotypes, but, oddly enough, so do some of the black characters.
There is, indeed, an oddly passive-aggressive quality to "Seeing Mary Plain": Kiernan never attacks McCarthy directly, but plants spiteful little quotations throughout.
Toibin, however, finds the story "oddly convincing" -- and indeed makes it much more convincing in his novel, where it provides a scene of almost unbearable tension between the two young men, the one blandly curious, the other immobile with a desire he is too terrified to act on.
For better or worse, Florida may be the truest melting pot we have -- and oddly, perhaps because memory is indeed so short here, it has more or less worked.
Their rhythms sing in my head, and indeed crop up oddly in passages of my novels where they are not needed.
India, indeed, empowers Deb oddly, making of him a sort of ghost who has access to the less salubrious locations – of which there are many.
It was so oddly familiar.
