Yiddish idioms and folk songs infuse several scenes with warmth and affection.
Once, Reagan reports that a family meeting has solved everything, but no subsequent scenes of warmth bear this out.
Schlitz skillfully manages multiple narratives as the story makes its complex way forward, creating scenes of warmth and humor along with those of drama and horror.
Born into nineteen-fifties Memphis ("a hot stew of musical urgency") just before the release of her father's first single, Cash paints scenes of warmth and disappointment, rootlessness and home.
That scene is now etched in my head, a photo-negative of the manger scene of warmth and light and love, a reversal of the story God chose to write.
The effect is of light flooding the scene, of warmth rushing in.
In contrast, the restored bedroom scene projects warmth and welcome, he said, rather than the "icy blue" of the faded colors.
This lack of darkness and Harbach's unerring ability to imbue almost every scene with warmth and humor keeps the reader focussed on the plot, which moves quickly, and serves to distract you from some of "The Art of Fielding"'s less probable elements.
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But still things weren't quite right and 10 days before the shoot Carl Gottlieb was enlisted to work with Spielberg on some dialogue scenes, bringing more warmth and "levity" to the often unlikable characters.
