Word: anguish
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...moral evil because it strikes, through its burden of suffering, human beings in their flesh and heart . . . bringing insecurity, anguish for the next day, and often misery...
...gaudy huskies as "Gorgeous George," a marcelled, peroxide blond who made the sham slaughter seem even more ridiculous by his coy shenanigans in the ring and out. "The queens are passe now," says Columnist Jimmy Cannon, but wrestlers are still getting away with their hammy histrionics, still faking pain, anguish and angry violence with steady success...
...modern India's most popular novels, Pather Panchali, by Bibhuti Bannerji. Part One, Pather Panchali (TIME, Oct. 20). told a story of village life in northern India; of how a family tree was felled by the wind of the world; and of how the survivors, in anguish and confusion, broke with the medieval past and set out upon the weary and sorrowful journey to modern times. Aparajito ("The Story of Apu") describes their dreadful, beautiful encounter with the future...
...Christ is born." One of the play's engaging qualities is its childlike mixture of varying emotions: a scene of wanton rejoicing to the fluttering sound of recorders gives way to a mood of reverence, signified by the sweet-sounding psaltery, and again to the quiet, harp-punctuated anguish of Daniel's farewell to Darius ("Is it thus, O King, that you wish me to perish...
...were sick of the "serious" theatre--of playwrights who make love to their anguish; of sonambulists gurgling from garbage cans; of semi-articulate anthropoids stumbling between sets and grunting their soliloquies; all the varied fare of trash and tedium which passes for tragedy on the Stage of the Common Man--then check your despair at the door. A great play given a great production has come to Broadway; one must hang out all the old abused superlatives and this time mean them...