And when Moynihan, in a self-described mellow mood, begins what turns into a three-hour ramble, it is in the mannered dialect that everyone who has ever worked for him can imitate: a singsong of "ah-ah-ahs" punctuated by staccato pops of commentary, with seemingly random accelerations, decelerations and abnormal stresses added for effect.
Has the iron self-discipline mellowed?
I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, which has given me a mellow self-entitlement matched only by New Yorkers' agitated self-entitlement.
Somehow -- her dusky alto voice helps -- the result is original, self-conscious art, mellow and conspiratorially playful.
When the moment of truth came, the Lakers left little doubt about their persona, mixing a fierce determination with a mellow self-assurance as they routed the Denver Nuggets, 119-92, and clinched their second straight Western Conference title.
But the people who talked with her during this frenzied time now describe her as having been calm, self-assured, unruffled, "super mellow".
Scarcely off the stage before Gerry Mulgrew takes over as his mellower, mature self, he never misses a beat, pushing the production forwards with faultless support from the large cast.
Enter Danny Corrigann), a self-described "pudgy and mellow" recent divorcée with a big inheritance.
For whatever reason, a tinge of sourness — or self-loathing, or at least self-consciousness — had harshed the show's trademark mellow.
Mike G has always felt like an outsider in the crew, the mellow sidekick, and that remains true on this self-released EP, showing Odd Future to be a wide umbrella, covering the aggro and the ambivalent.
A feeling of suffering can for instance elicit a kind of self-pity that, far from reproducing the suffering, elicits a "distinctively mellow" (Dilthey 2002, 76) mood that immobilizes.
