I'm more popular than Disneyworld," and that celebrity
queasily persists, at a time when women he tried to murder and kidnap are still alive, as well as relatives of all the women who never came home.
He claimed fellow heroin addict Mr Gilling was his friend, even saying he wanted "justice for Peter" at one
queasily insincere point in the witness box.
The wheel felt loose and only vaguely attached to the steering, and when I turned it, nothing much seemed to happen, but if I wasn't turning it, suddenly the headlights were veering
queasily across close-up tree trunks, gravel thwacking the chassis.
He recruits Amy as his first beta tester, and she
queasily enters a virtual realm with her other selves.
There is no scene in the book more heartbreaking or
queasily funny than when Cossacks break into Maria's bedroom in the middle of the night, and she reminds them that she's the dowager empress--though by then, it hardly matters.
His experience with what we are told are all-too-common disappearances of children is less reassuring than deeply,
queasily unsettling.
Regular Tablet readers know that I loathe most Holocaust media for kids: apps that are flippant or misguided; slim, pornographically violent volumes of poetry featuring mental monologues by bloodthirsty Nazis; richly illustrated fables
queasily blending history and legend; wide-eyed, manipulative middle-grade weepies; YA novels using the Holocaust as a jumping-off point for teen shapeshifter fantasy.
Even Clinton's own staff was
queasily bemused by that one.
Though the phrases Heaney quotes were clearly intended by their speakers to express sympathy for the family, while tactfully avoiding a brutal description of the death itself, "sorry for your trouble" unintentionally presents the young brother's death as a minor nuisance, while "it was a hard blow" is both excessively casual and
queasily evocative of the very real blow that brought the boy to his end.
"Matthew Weiner's debut novel, Heather, the Totality, is creepy, unsettling, strange, violent and
queasily seductive." JOCELYN MCCLURG
Performed by the Children of Paul's, a company which drew actors from the cathedral choir and performed within the cathedral precinct itself, at the heart of Anglican power structures, the play touches on the Plot in ways that have a
queasily comic resonance.
Peter Halley's latest show--his first with Greene Naftali--was spectacular, though severely and
queasily so.