Before his reader can wonder what kind of bonus Serena Pemberton is, Mr. Rash stages something quick and shocking: a fatal confrontation between the pregnant woman's father and her callous seducer.
Instead of being bombarded with shocking revelations and tearful confrontations, we slowly learn what the characters already know about each other and have perhaps tried to forget.
Confrontation with a shocking idea requires time to reflect and process, fear and anger do not contribute to critical analysis, and a place to retreat is a basic element of having the leisure to think and learn.
Many of us seemed to suspect that Sonya was the mole, and although the revelation wasn't particularly shocking, Lyndie Greenwood sold the confrontation with Birkhoff spectacularly -- I totally believed her panic and paranoia, even though she should've known better than to try and hide the truth from the team.
Shocking moment to shocking moment.
Those innocuous phrases often mask a world of private pain: tearful interviews, angry confrontations, threats of violence, shocking revelations and interminable waiting, waiting, waiting.
With race in the collective mind after that Harlem march, it is hardly shocking that the man who made an art of confrontation tried mollification.
The casualty figures at Shiloh were five times greater than its only major predecessor engagement, the Battle of Bull Run, and people were left with the shocking apprehension that more, and perhaps many more, such confrontations were in store before the thing was settled.
In a shocking but not entirely surprising move, given increasingly violent confrontations near the Oceti Sakowin Camp, The United States Army Corps of Engineers USACEE) has issued what amounts to an eviction notice to Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault.
Tuesday's set traced this confrontation with the good life, from Roxy Music's first shocking outbursts to its knowingly decadent denouement.
