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Music is always telling stories (more or less), and I think that charismatic power is an element in one of those stories--the force we feel when a strong personality comes up against a demonic power and refuses to be cowed, and takes hair-raising risks, and succeeds in being, if only for a moment, the demon's equal.
Rogue nations will be cowed by the prospect of surveillance.
For those who have watched his career, his outspokenness on the campaign trail appears as a refusal to be cowed by yet another prison and its silly rules.
So we have a man's tongue "grey as the foot of a goose"; a catfish "the size of a boar hog"; a man who gets ready to take a blow "like a cowed dog"; a night as dark "as the inside of a cow"; an old man whose dugs "hung down like those on a sow hog"--an entire farmyard of likenesses.
When reports about McCain's bad temper first emerged out of Arizona this fall, they indicated that he had muscled, rebuked, punished, and cowed fellow Republicans in order to squelch dissent.