bottled-up

Everyone might be stunned — as they were 15 years ago — at the bottled-up support and enthusiasm there is for public schools in this town.

She makes all of these bottled-up, difficult women believable and, even when they push everyone away, sympathetic — you can see the layers of pain and weariness that they shelter behind and occasionally break through.

Nothing will happen unless Congress and the Biden administration give the go-ahead, and, given that Congress is mired in unproductive rancor and partisanship, the politics appear as hazardous for the salmon as the bottled-up waters of the Snake and the Columbia.

Ridley’s Helena is mostly a succession of bottled-up stares broken up by bursts of fear for her child’s safety, and even those moments don’t track with the implausibility of some of her own actions.

“Lost Flowers” doesn’t play to her traditional strengths — the taciturn, bottled-up Jane doesn’t provide much of a canvas for Weaver’s regal-yet-feral intelligence or her deadly sense of humor.