Sublime

back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes.

protagonists have to be active and why stories wither the minute they become inert. Without desire – unless Michael pulls the trigger – there is nothing to catalyse the scene.

Unable to resolve the paradox on his own, Tom decided to consult the known authority on such matters: Jane Austen.

O amor negado — experiência recorrente em vários personagens da peça — vale como imagem concreta de uma vida perdida, uma vida inteira da qual eles se veem alijados, sem entender por quê.

He has always been alien to her, a man of procedures where there should be passions.

Structurally this is the point that forces a protagonist to realize things can no longer stay the same:

malaprop.

posit an idea, explore it, then come to a conclusion that, if the drama is convincing, is proved true.