Do you hear the sound of ocean waves crashing on the shore, feel white sand shifting beneath your feet?
For the people trickling back in, the shore feels more like a demilitarized zone than a seaside haven.
"K-19," which stays on the sub for more than an hour before cutting briefly back to shore, feels less like a war movie than a horror film.
The music was corny, the opening sequence in which Sagan strides along a clifftop above a rocky shore felt like a documentary cliché, his introduction was painfully drawn-out, the promised poetry was turning the sea air purple.
Sarah Haynes, the outgoing captain at Ravenswood School for Girls on the north shore, felt let down and "betrayed" by the school and the "wondrous perfection that it wants to sell everyone".
Shore felt it was important to have an interesting central character, one who could examine patients' personal characteristics and diagnose their ailments by figuring out their secrets and lies.
Although it's just a 45-minute boat ride from Likoma Island, the deliciously remote Nkwichi Lodge, on the lake's Mozambican shore, feels like it's at the end of the world.
Having recently relocated from his picturesque home in the Alberta mountains (his 2013 album Country City Country was filled with nods to skiing and the outdoors) to Berlin, a city known for cold winters and even colder techno, the producer and DJ's third album LP for Toyko's Mule Musiq offshoot Endless Flight, On The Shore, feels like a tale from a man torn between two worlds.
But the casual friendliness of the staff, the laid-back atmosphere and the easygoing buzz among the diners give the place a Shore feel, and that's more welcome.
It is not entirely clear when anyone will be able to return to what is now called Lido Beach Towers, the former hotel, currently a 184-unit condominium property that was perhaps the most storied edifice on the Long Island shore to feel Hurricane Sandy's full wrath.
