Beneath the pop-culture references and the determinedly flat language is a wellspring of anguish.
His paintings — at once menacing and gleeful, incorporating pieces of debris found on the street, snippets of language, and faces from African-American history wreathed with haloes — were clearly political, but the message seemed to come from the wellspring of his personal experience.
How can narrativity encode the materiality of language, the thinking goes, or perform the instability of the contemporary subject, or investigate the incapacities of signs and signifiers, if it draws from the same ancient wellspring that spawned classical myth, medieval balladry, and folksy Americana?
In other words, our wellspring of desires and urges are separate from self-control and restraint.
But it would not go easily, particularly among well-educated Chinese youths, who have formed a wellspring of nationalist sentiment in recent years and generally know enough English to have read the original English-language version of American statement of regret.
The wellspring of humanitas was Classical literature.
He's a wellspring of information.
Curiosity is a wellspring of innovation.
A foreign-language university, still operating on a side street off Victory Square, about a five-minute walk from his apartment, was a wellspring of young English-speaking women, and a favorite hangout.
Baum was a wellspring of ideas, wit and chutzpah.
