Word: anguish
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...appealed more to French emotions than to French intelligence. Bowed under the weight of his 82 years and long illness, he was too feeble to rise and mount the rostrum, but from his bench the "old bear" spoke theatrically in his deep voice. "I have read the documents with anguish," he rumbled. "No one can say that Great Britain is engaged to stand by our side. That alone would be enough to make me reject EDC . . . The treaty does not give France the right to withdraw from the community as it does Germany. By leaving Germany freedom of action...
...admirers, a new Faulkner novel is the event of the year. To the plain reader it is a tortuous chore which pays off only in random flashes of greatness, some of it so illuminating as to make the ill-lighted drudgery seem worthwhile. This week, after nine years of "anguish and travail," Faulkner unveils A Fable. It is a major effort by a great writer, one that few other writers would attempt. Even when it does not come off, a major Faulkner effort towers above many works that achieve their lesser ends. But unless his poor luck in the bookstores...
...great aria from the Nile Scene. Toscanini demanded that she sing a long, difficult phrase in one breath. "I know," he had said earlier, "there is not a soprano today who does it. But you do it." He also insisted on his own interpretation of anguish in the phrase O patria mia, o patria mia. He sang it through himself, beating his chest. Nelli tried it. No, no, said the maestro, and launched into the phrase again, leaning toward her, hugging his own shoulders, swaying in sorrow. When finally the recording began, Nelli's voice rang through the hall...
...object turned out to be a sculptured slab, 6 ft. 5½ in. by 2 ft. 3 in., showing the dead Christ laid out on a rough, shrouded bier awaiting entombment. In the tragic dignity of the recumbent figure and in the calm anguish of the face, the sculptor had achieved a work of striking realism; the body lies alone with none to mourn it, and the effect is one of infinite loneliness. Art experts called the statue a first-rate example of Renaissance sculpture, and archaeologists pronounced it "one of the major archaeological finds made in London during this...
...standards he is a rich dead beat who has never done a lick of work in his 36 years. Born in America and educated in England, Stephen goes to Berlin in the '20s as "a runaway puritan." There he samples "every kind of pleasure, vice, shame and mental anguish," and returns to England a jaded 22, convinced that the only valid emotion is boredom, "or ennui as I preferred to call it." Into the midst of ennui steps an older woman named Elizabeth Rydal, a sensitive novelist of the Virginia Woolf persuasion, with grey eyes and a "long amused...