Omg. Apropos of nothing that has explicable context, I just realized something.
Omg. Apropos of nothing that has explicable context, I just realized something.
I had a boss at one point who I really had trouble describing the skillfully political slime that he was. He was so good, that he'd say something and everyone knew what was really going on, and yet if you tried to transcribe it out of context it would sound totally innocuous. He was also apparently verbally very abusive to his fellows, although never to me. He was dangerous, powerful, rich, and made sure he would progressively be more of the same.
But I could never figure out quite how to describe some of what made it so uncomfortable to deal with him. It finally hit me. The description of Dolores Umbridge in the books, not the movies, as a large, pale toad. Always calculating, always slimy, and very much that description. Except that instead of having eyes that were always very wide open, they were much more like certain real toads, with that lidded, calculating look.
He was one of those people with whom you were just uncomfortable about walking into the room.
#csbp
I had a boss at one point who I really had trouble describing the skillfully political slime that he was. He was so good, that he'd say something and everyone knew what was really going on, and yet if you tried to transcribe it out of context it would sound totally innocuous. He was also apparently verbally very abusive to his fellows, although never to me. He was dangerous, powerful, rich, and made sure he would progressively be more of the same.
But I could never figure out quite how to describe some of what made it so uncomfortable to deal with him. It finally hit me. The description of Dolores Umbridge in the books, not the movies, as a large, pale toad. Always calculating, always slimy, and very much that description. Except that instead of having eyes that were always very wide open, they were much more like certain real toads, with that lidded, calculating look.
He was one of those people with whom you were just uncomfortable about walking into the room.
#csbp
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