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She just jumps into the shower and puts her wet hair back into a ponytail, which emphasizes her deceptively childlike appearance, and makes me feel slightly Humbertish at check-in time.
The stereotyping is powerful, the more so because it appears deceptively unquestioned.
(The program deceptively implied that the judgment was based on wrongful prosecution.)
He has put his own suffering--as a boy he saw a Nazi kill his mother--into short narratives of self-absorbed Jewish life before the war that are so ominously toneless, artfully simple and repetitious, deceptively compressed in feeling, that the reader, aware of the horror about to descend on these people, feels like screaming but knows he will not be heard.
It must have something to do with her deceptively childlike look.