The best moments of these fractured narratives of desire, eroticism and memory have a real, almost visceral charge, and are captivating.

Some parkgoers describe a visceral charge from watching the planes, much like the rush of watching a Nascar race.

As the jabs come thicker and faster in rising, precisely timed crescendos of aggression, his performance takes on a visceral musical charge.

As she sings, her lean, serpentine body turns ramrod stiff and her voice takes on a new visceral charge.

The intention, Mr. James has said, was to find a visceral, expressly modern charge in the material untapped by Richard Wilbur's elegant standard translation.

As a result, the movie's chases and demolition derbies have no continuity or visceral charge.

Artemisia's work has a visceral charge her father's doesn't.

But, though the acting and production carry a tremendous visceral charge, they cannot disguise the fact that the 24-year-old Schiller was still learning his craft as a dramatist.

Of course what actually happened was probably nothing like that, but the scene has a real visceral charge of liberating anarchy that makes it the evening's cornerstone.

There's no visceral charge to that violence here, only ugliness and waste.