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The problem is that his writing seems strangely attenuated in these pages, stripped of its usual pop and fizz, its tactile sense of detail, and as a result the novel has a spindly, etiolated feel.
Ruders ordinarily thrives on gothic atmosphere — he once made a bone-chilling setting of Poe's "The City in the Sea" — but his cathedral scene feels strangely attenuated, as if he were afraid of losing comic momentum.
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attenuated bloodlines?
Everything is attenuated.
So its startle reflex is not attenuated.
Its audience has attenuated as well.
The storytelling in "Habana Melody" is somewhat attenuated as well.
Becton Dickinson calls Ms. Fitzgerald's accusations "attenuated and speculative".
His high notes were dull in tone and frequently attenuated.
The play is attenuated and sentimental, but disarming.
But attenuated as they were, the songs never came apart.
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