As his earlier books " Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All " and " White People " attested, Allan Gurganus is an old-fashioned yarn spinner, a storyteller unafraid of excess, garrulity, sentimentality and contrivance.
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Christian Thielemann's new version with the Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin ( Deutsche Grammophon 453 587-2; CD ) finds an admirable balance between refinement and intensity, avoiding the standard-issue garrulity too common in performances of this work.
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This weakness was even more apparent in the evangelist'portraits', where the ornamental bands of the Sainte-Chapelle Gospels are degraded into decorative garrulity, and there is so little weight and structure under the draperies that they might be covering mere inanimate cushions ."
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"God : A Biography " chronicled God's coming of age in the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh ( which encompasses the same material as the Old Testament but presents it in a slightly different order ), showing his gradual maturation as he exchanges garrulity for mysterious silence and tries to learn from his mistakes.
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Some people considered that his style was different after his breakdown : Larkin characterized it as " a hollow feathery tone framing phrases of an almost Chinese introspection with a tendency to inconclusive garrulity that would have been unheard of in the days when Pee Wee could pack more into a middle eight than any other thirties pick-up player ".
