But as this novel's four narrators detail the "Delbrook Massacre" and its legacy, Coupland's focus isn't on society but on his characters' spiritual lives -- which nevertheless feel slightly trivialized by his light, quippy prose.
It is a strange combination, love and smoke, but there is a long streak of strangeness in German art — colors you didn't expect (Caspar David Friedrich, Max Beckmann), Venuses who aren't pretty (Cranach, Altdorfer) — which nevertheless feels like life.
Amid an old man's pardonably digressive reminiscences (some of which will nevertheless feel familiar to readers of Buchwald's other books), he speaks feelingly about the realities of death: living wills; the grief of other, less fortunate hospice residents and their families; and the strange American habit of trying to ignore life's end.
Systematic retroflexion (e.g., in the rectum) was not part of the study protocol; we nevertheless felt that retroflexion, which can happen inadvertently, is safe and can be easily achieved, e.g., in rectum, at flexures, and in the cecum if aimed at (examples of colon views and findings are shown in Figures 2 and 3).
Whitman nevertheless felt he got a good fix on Lincoln.
Ayer nevertheless felt an 'outsider', and it is clear that his fellow-students did not warm to him, perhaps due to the excessive zeal with which he attempted to convert them to atheism.
He nevertheless felt the thematic shifts lacked coherence and atmosphere.
But, some of the interviewees nevertheless felt that they should get more involved in what is happening in the world around them, protest more against the encroachment by others into the environment on which they depend.
When my first novel was published there was a small and helpful burst of accompanying publicity which, nevertheless, caused me to feel suddenly exposed, examined and poised on the lip of some horrible pit of compensatory doom: today the Guardian profile, tomorrow the freak case of galloping leprosy/lycanthropy/demonic possession.
He nevertheless feels compensated by the final chapter, which he describes as representing Glob "at his best, building-up, in detective-style fashion", a picture of ritual behavior in the Iron Age.
