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The bald, curdle-faced pinky-sucker is still locked in excruciating combat with his teen-aged son, Scott Evil (Seth Green), who never misses a chance to jeer at his father's grandiosity, and who in turn is dismissed as "quasievil ...
Renee Graham of the Boston Globe calls the film "excruciating," and Berkowitz "the biggest jerk you're likely to see in a movie this year."
Those familiar with Safire's editorial style, reflected in his political columns on the editorial pages of The N. Y. Times , may agree with me in the contention that when he writes about language he seems to be writing on his day off: I cannot put my finger on why, but “On Language” always strikes me as an excruciating effort to be cute.
The lawyer serves his client by employing his most impressive language: the collision was one of “great force and violence,’ the injuries “severe,’ the pain “excruciating,’ and the mental anguish “extreme.
It's as though their melancholy derived from the excruciating imperative to be blacks performing according to the conventions of blackface.