It’s simultaneously one of the funniest and most agonizingly obnoxious trends in journalism how the writer will physically describe whoever they’re talking about in weirdly dehumanizing but excessively flower language you know they’re just SO proud of
Like this person thinks we’re all gonna be really pulled in and awed by their master wordsmithery about Nicolas Cage’s “puppety face”
That has turned me off of so many longform articles, you don’t even know. “Jerry Everydude had baby-brown eyes and a smile that could chisel rock when he went to jail for killing three squirrel families with his penis…”
I can’t find a specific example but I know I also witness this a lot when a non-scientist interviews a scientist for a mainstream magazine or paper and it often makes them sound like some sort of ghoul.
“Professor Williams doesn’t look a mere 36, with a shock of sparse and fraying hair accentuating eyes that seem to beg for escape from their darkened sockets, but sometimes, there’s a little spark of life gasping at the surface of his skeletal features when he’s given a moment to wax about crustacean reproductive habits.”
It’s called being overworked, jesus.
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