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Gerard Manley Hopkins, the Catholic convert and priest who wrote near the beginning of the 20 th century, had the gift of seeing spiritual life as dynamic, even agonized, rather than complacently sweet.
Teens never talked the way Romeo and Juliet do, or agonized as deeply, and who takes their creator to task for that?
The agonized expression on his face looks like a kind of rapture.
On a recent Meet the Press , the New Dick agonized over the question of human rights in China, but then reached the conclusion that free trade is a basic human right, and voted as usual for MFN status.
Orientalism and its even more ambitious sequel Culture and Imperialism are works of passionate, almost agonized ambivalence.