With their colour-bleached hues and holiday-snap vibe, the pictures are able to evoke timeless teenage rituals, and universal holiday moods.
With the Third Symphony, Glazunov attempted to reach beyond the nationalist style to reflect what he felt were universal forms, moods and themes.
According to classic behavioral theories, facial expressions are universal indicators of mood and emotion.
"I think, despite all my efforts to mock myself for being pompous and grandiose, that I have found something universal, a common mood that has not been explored before," he writes at one point.
and "Nebraska" chronicled the fallout from Reaganomics), Springsteen seems to be striving for something universal to capture the mood of the whole nation.
It would be wrong, though, to think Angola had been gripped by a mood of universal gloom in the aftermath of Friday's terrorist attack on the Togo team bus.
Rather than tell individual stories as allegories of a broader social condition (the way the characters on "Born in the U.S.A". and "Nebraska" chronicled the fallout from Reaganomics), Springsteen seems to be striving for something universal to capture the mood of the whole nation.
For example, in Australia, the advent of the National Perinatal Depression Initiative (NPDI [ 15]) will see the implementation of universal screening for perinatal mood disorders.
Even with Wild Mood Swings' near universal derision, "Mint Car" is as tightly constructed as any of the songs from the band's golden era.
It is, arguably, the most universal game, and it unites moods and sensibilities.
