People should be able to tell lies about you and you should put up with that,'" he says, his slack body language suddenly stiffening at the cafe table.
What follows next should have been the shock of the movie: a cut to Ronnie having vigorous sex with Brandi who, from her closed eyes, slack body and the vomit trailing from her mouth to her pillow, appears to have passed out.
One by one they paused in front of her before slipping off their sandals and passing into the Sufi shrine of Shah Daula, a procession of the afflicted who dream to walk again, rich men who humble themselves on their knees for a promise of heaven, mothers with the slack bodies of sick babies in their arms.
But I'm doing my best to stop, because I know perfectly well that if I want my daughters to have a positive view of their young, taut, powerful bodies, I have to readjust my perspective on my aging, slack, powerful body, too.
"He sipped with his straight mouth, / Softly drank through his straight gums, into his slack long body, / Silently".
A beefy attendant cradling his slack, naked body in the hospital's pool suggests Mary holding the crucified Jesus, but Bauby will rise again only in art: the miracle this movie celebrates is his ability to compose his book.
It reminds me of how, in the movies, when people are tasked with channelling a spirit, their faces go fully slack — the body is given over to the mission.
His good looks reminded her of those of certain damaged film stars and pop stars from her nineteen-fifties childhood: cheekbones and jaw chiselled too rigidly, mouth loose-lipped and needy, handsome head oversized in relation to the slack, slight body.
Outfitted in tightly belted safari slacks, her body is shaped like a Martini glass.
Episode after episode has ended with Felicity in an archer's crosshairs or suffering from an acute case of bullet poisoning, Thea bleeding out from a sword wound, or in one case, Oliver Queen himself plummeting off a cliff, his body slack and definitely, definitely dead.
Don't stop until your pillow is full and has no obvious areas of slack in its body.
