The director and his actresses achieve a fevered intimacy their urgent whispering is matched by his images of a tremulous immediacy.

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If that suggests a tremulous fear of life outside, his attempts to confront and conquer it, however localized, smack of a dorky daydream.

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In this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's revered 2006 novel, Viggo Mortensen, caked in grime, plays the father with a fierce physicality and tremulous woundedness.

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Same-sex marriage was still so unpopular that in 1996, tremulous Democrats joined Republicans in overwhelmingly passing the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, signed by President Bill Clinton.

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The story is awkwardly split, opening in tremulous peace and then exploding halfway through into a barrage of hectic incidents a kidnapping, a theft, a car accident, and an unlikely epiphany by the sea.

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Despite the positive signs, peace remains tremulous.

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That Ms. Weems succeeds in evoking an era while revealing her props and directorial cues testifies to her skills as a magician who can tip her hand and nonetheless fool us into sharing a mood of tremulous expectancy.

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Officials then cast a tremulous eye at the accord with Mexico, which they think has become a conduit for the import to Brazil of cars largely made at the East Asian plants of global carmakers, such as VW and General Motors.

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With a maternal ferocity stronger than any she could recall, she had swooped down upon that tremulous thought and crushed it, almost bellowing her reassurance that he was safe and always would be as long as he let her or his father or Mrs.

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