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Daniel leans toward a technical explanation--that Degas "had solved the problem of the meditative lamp-lit nocturnal portrait."
Feminists approve of the novel, about an aging rock star and her two abandoned children, because it coldly documents the woman's abuse and is "clear-eyed about the economic forces that shape women's lives" (Valerie Sayers, the New York Times Book Review ). Others say Allison "leans precariously toward melodrama" and tries too hard for "gut-wrenching emotion" (Phyllis Richardson, the Los Angeles Times Book Review ).
For paragraphs at a time she leans on plot summary of the timid undergraduate-book-report variety.
Sonny leans into the window, places his hand on the shoulder of a young man with gelid eyes and blood trickling from one ear, and exhorts him to live , live . He says that there are angels in the car, that the young man has nothing to fear if he accepts Jesus Christ as his savior--and, miraculously, the young man manages to thank him.
Built in 1109, it leans more than 2 meters (7 1/2 ft), less than its twin, Torre Giselda, that leans 3 m (10 ft).