jarringness

It's almost gaming intuition to just go with the flow and ignore the jarringness of these things.

Not Now, Honey, I'm Exploring SVGL 2009

Leave it to a show that famously employs an unusually high number of women writers to capture — more vividly than anything I’ve encountered save Norman Mailer’s short story “The Language of Men” and, obliquely, John O’Hara’s “Graven Image” — the unrelenting, low-level competition and consequent posing, the miscues and jarringness, the monotonous lack of intimacy that characterize a good deal of the conversation among middle-class American males.

Mad About Mad Men 2009

Leave it to a show that famously employs an unusually high number of women writers to capture — more vividly than anything I’ve encountered save Norman Mailer’s short story “The Language of Men” and, obliquely, John O’Hara’s “Graven Image” — the unrelenting, low-level competition and consequent posing, the miscues and jarringness, the monotonous lack of intimacy that characterize a good deal of the conversation among middle-class American males.

Mad About Mad Men 2009

Leave it to a show that famously employs an unusually high number of women writers to capture — more vividly than anything I’ve encountered save Norman Mailer’s short story “The Language of Men” and, obliquely, John O’Hara’s “Graven Image” — the unrelenting, low-level competition and consequent posing, the miscues and jarringness, the monotonous lack of intimacy that characterize a good deal of the conversation among middle-class American males.

Mad About Mad Men 2009