Word of the Day — September 24, 2012

Example: "A reviewer of the film SUN DON'T SHINE in the New Yorker — a critic with an astonishingly descriptive use of the English language — refers to actresses as 'giving performances of harrowing power, their incarnations of blind tenderness and fierce desire building to outbursts of feral rage; filming the actors with a subcutaneous intimacy ... and a nuanced eye, the director balances a meticulous attention to practical menace with the eruptive force of her characters' inner lives ...'"