There is something simply soul-shattering in those glass eyes.
To imagine that leaders of the past were simply larger souls than those of our time is usually just a seductive fantasy, but in Roosevelt's case it's probably true.
In Field Niggas, some of the people are junkies addicted to the latest killer drug K2, a few are stick-up kids waiting for their next victim, and others are simply lost souls with seemingly no other place to go.
Furthermore, Cudworth conceives of the hegemonikon not simply as the soul but the whole person, 'that which is properly we ourselves' (Cudworth, 1996, p. 178).
His only alternative, then, was to mitigate its vehemence; to soften down the shriek of agony into a sigh; — not from any idea that a shriek would have betrayed an ignoble soul, but simply because it would have exhibited the countenance under a repulsive aspect.
It would never do to have some kind soul simply tell him what the hell is going on.
At the end of a gruelling odyssey, they concluded that the aforementioned soul simply wasn't there.
In many ways, he may simply be a soul singer following a classic tradition, but comes with enough talent to make that concept sound fresh once more.
Their encore, 'Chicken Payback', is simply mad, a soul stomp including animal noises and repetitive, puerile lyrics 'Pay back the chicken, back back/Pay the chicken back.' I suppose you just had to be there.
After death he is composed simply of a soul.
