So although the visual arts and music can provide temporary distraction for the worrier, we need words – fragile, unstable words – to express it.
The debate, which took over a school forum in Los Angeles on Monday, is as much about campus culture as it is about Israel, and it touches on all the topics that have made colleges the target of discussion and derision in recent months: diversity, tolerance, censorship, the increasingly unstable distinction between words that are unwelcome and speech that is truly threatening.
For the word "unstable," 33percentt selected "extremely," 11percentt chose "very" and 16percentt agreed with "somewhat".
It was, the aide said, the difference between being opportunistic and being "unstable" ― a word used by other Clinton officials in recent interviews to describe the GOP nominee.
It's hard to hear the words "unstable" and "unbalanced" and not wonder if he's referring to her hormones.
It was, the aide said, the difference between being opportunistic and being "unstable" ― a word used by other Clinton officials in recent interviews to describe the GOP nominee. "The effectiveness is showing people who he is," explained Joel Benenson, Clinton's chief strategist.
I think sometimes the word unstable, if you put that idea instability it might panic patients a bit but again it depends on the context and the patient.
Her eccentric behaviour, her unwieldy plans for an epic comeback project ("I hate that word!") and unstable mental health contrast with the brisk and breezy behaviour of Gillis and his young pals.
Mr. Walker bravely approaches Mercutio without the usual elfin lyricism, creating instead a portrait of an aggressively unstable man who uses words and images to whip himself into a destructive fever.
McGregor said later he thought Diaz's words were unstable rambling in response to the verbal trashing he was absorbing.
Nixon wanted to impress upon the Soviets that the president of the United States was, in a word, mad: unstable, erratic in his decision-making, and capable of anything.
