Metaphorically, for Smiley, the bear represents a destructive passion too pleasurable to resist.
In one case, we are told that Hopkins distanced himself from a younger classmate at Highgate, Alex Strachey, because he found the lad's company too "pleasurable" ("and therefore... too dangerous," Mariani adds in decorous parentheses).
Of "those years in the movies," Salter wrote, there remains "a kind of silky pollen that clings to the fingertips and brings back what was once pleasurable, too pleasurable, perhaps — the lights dancing on dark water, as in the old prints, the sound of voices, laughter, music, all faint, alluring, far off".
There remains, though, in the case of those years in the movies, a kind of silky pollen that clings to the fingertips and brings back what was once pleasurable, too pleasurable, perhaps — the lights dancing on dark water, as in the old prints, the sound of voices, laughter, music, all faint, alluring, far off.
Of "those years in the movies," Salter wrote, there remains "a kind of silky pollen that clings to the fingertips and brings back what was once pleasurable, too pleasurable, perhaps the lights dancing on dark water, as in the old prints, the sound of voices, laughter, music, all faint, alluring, far off".
There remains, though, in the case of those years in the movies, a kind of silky pollen that clings to the fingertips and brings back what was once pleasurable, too pleasurable, perhaps the lights dancing on dark water, as in the old prints, the sound of voices, laughter, music, all faint, alluring, far off.
Finally, I am a different person than I used to be, and when you write something you discover yourself, and this, too, was pleasurable.
Manohla Dargis, writing in The Times, said the director, Bennett Miller, "takes all this seemingly dry, dusty, inside-baseball stuff and turns it into the kind of all-too-rare pleasurable Hollywood diversion that gives you a contact high".
Manohla Dargis, writing in The New York Times, said the director Bennett Miller "takes all this seemingly dry, dusty, inside-baseball stuff and turns it into the kind of all-too-rare pleasurable Hollywood diversion that gives you a contact high".
Mr. Miller, largely shaking off the official art-house pretensions of his breakout feature, "Capote," takes all this seemingly dry, dusty, inside-baseball stuff and turns it into the kind of all-too-rare pleasurable Hollywood diversion that gives you a contact high.
The director Bennett Miller, "largely shaking off the official art-house pretensions of his breakout feature, 'Capote,' takes all this seemingly dry, dusty, inside-baseball stuff and turns it into the kind of all-too-rare pleasurable Hollywood diversion that gives you a contact high," Ms. Dargis said of this fictionalized adaptation of the book by Michael Lewis.
