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She can be a great movie actress, but a key to that greatness is how her dryly sardonic voice--with its edge of neurotic insecurity--plays against her ethereal features and brings her down to earth.
What most thinking people in black studies find dangerous about the middlebrow apotheosis of the field is that it usually leads to the enshrinement of what Jacques Barzun calls thought-clichés, half-truths or non-truths that are accepted as the truth because someone said so in some reference book like Africana . Thought-clichés are like narcotics; people love them because they relieve them of the very thing they do not wish to do in any case, that is, think, think hard, and think critically and against the grain of their own beliefs or psychological needs or neurotic fantasy projections.
A modestly warm reception for the last installment in director Whit Stillman's trilogy (following Metropolitan and Barcelona ) about neurotic, hypereducated young WASPs.
But to many commentators, Khomeini was a fanatic . Charismatic is thus used as selectively as neurotic . Neurotics are those whose behavior we find odd.
He had the kind of neurotic, sardonic, satiric, manic, and generally -ic personality that I imagine was not so common 60 years ago (for who else was like him in American letters?