Sentences with phrase «dangerously erotic images»

Thematically, the novel is preoccupied with relics, the physical reminders of emotion — for Miles, the abandoned possessions of hundreds of evicted tenants; for Bing, the beaten - up antiques he has pledged to save; for Ellen, the dangerously erotic images she is finally able to cultivate from the ephemera of her mind and put onto paper; and for Alice, an obsession with a World War II film which she believes captures the simultaneous hope and despair of a generation.