Science Fiction is interrupted by anonymous voices, reversed audio and isolated screams (presumably from the same tapes sampled on Daisy) that detach the whole thing from any recognizable environment and instead places it in a specific, discomposed sort of headspace.
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Logan Lerman is endearing, finding shyness as well as bluster in the hero (when discomposed, he turns aside and narrows his eyes, like Richard Gere), and Sarah Gadon has the look of an injured angel, but the movie simply asks too much of them.
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She later finds herself swooning over his investigative intellect. They later fall in love with each other. Guruji (R. Sarathkumar), the local gang-buster, then becomes discomposed with Mahesh for falling in love with Vimala, his ex-fiancé.
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One of these nests I procured this autumn, most artificially > platted,Note: "artificially platted": skillfully woven. and composed of the > blades of wheat; perfectly round, and about the size of a cricket-ball. It > was so compact and well-filled, that it would roll across the table without > being discomposed, though it contained eight little mice that were naked and > blind.White, The Natural History of Selborne, letter xii (4 November 1767).
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Portrait (1915) of Edith Sitwell, Driberg's early mentor (by Roger Fry) After leaving Oxford, Driberg lived precariously in London, attempting to establish himself as a poet while doing odd jobs and pawning his few valuables.Wheen (2001), pp. 58–59 Occasionally he had chance encounters with Oxford acquaintances; Evelyn Waugh's diary entry for 30 October 1927 records: "I went to church in Margaret Street where I was discomposed to observe Tom Driberg's satanic face in the congregation".Davie (ed.), p.
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Kissinger immediately passed the message to White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig, who met with Nixon for 20 minutes around 10:30 pm, and reportedly empowered Kissinger to take any necessary action. Kissinger immediately called a meeting of senior officials, including Haig, Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, and CIA Director William Colby. The Watergate scandal had reached its apex, and Nixon was so agitated and discomposed that they decided to handle the matter without him: > When Kissinger asked Haig whether [Nixon] should be wakened, the White House > chief of staff replied firmly 'No.' Haig clearly shared Kissinger's feelings > that Nixon was in no shape to make weighty decisions.
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When Wager died Horace Walpole, first observed that he had “left the fairest character”,Walpole, Correspondence, 2.245–6 a judgement supported by all of the surviving evidence. A remembrance recorded many years later by Arthur Onslow, the respected speaker of the Commons, remains highly instructive:” He was of the most gentle and humane disposition I ever knew, and spent almost the whole he got in generous acts of charity and compassion. I had a long and intimate acquaintance with him, and have seen where his temper has been tried by much provocation, but I never saw him discomposed. He had a very good understanding, great plainness of manners, and a steadiness of courage that no danger could daunt, with the same calmness in it that he shewed in the most ordinary acts of his life.
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