Word: anguish
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...begins so slowly that for a while audiences can almost imagine that there is trouble with the projector. Even as the emotional rhythm catches hold, the mood is continually jolted by meaningless digressions. Nonetheless, there are several scenes which draw their moral beauty to a point that pierces like anguish. There is the moment on the train when the father gives the boy his first present; the boy stares at it, his eyes immense with wonder; the father urges him to open it; the boy says simply, "I do aot care what is in it." There is, again, a moment...
...dreaming that he will have her now. And Agustin, a man of convention, says he won't. But his heart says yes, and the heart wins. Yet, as Author Pérez Galdós does things, this is no commonplace happy ending. It is an end to anguish achieved by a cleansing of guilt on Amparo's part, by the courage on Agustin's to dismiss the sneers of his narrow world. An old story, but Torment shows how good...
...Judge Clyde I. Webster, 75, who held court from his sickbed, and Mercy Killer William R. Jones, 62, who sat at his side to be sentenced-wept with compassion for each other in Detroit one day last week. The judge's tears came as he considered the anguish which led Jones to electrocute his wife, Barbara, a sufferer from incurable diabetes, who had lost both legs and suffered agonizing pain. Jones wept as the judge explained that he could not condone the killing but could only "show you every consideration." "I want to thank you," said Jones, after getting...
...continue without terrible risks. Do not rely on this appearance of calm in the country, on this apathy which is the sign of its anxiety, and, I might even say, of its discouragement . . . The country is very unhappy ... I do not recall having known a moment of such terrible anguish . . . The game of party against party has lasted long enough. The moment has come -I hope it is not too late-to try to form a government at all costs...
...make room for it). Goya painted the Self Portrait in 1820 at the peak of his genius, as a tribute to a man he firmly believed saved his life. In 1819 Goya was 73 years old, totally deaf and seriously ill. Sickness always made the touchy Spaniard roar with anguish and self-pity. "I'm so frantic, I can scarcely stand myself," he told a friend. But a sympathetic doctor named Arrieta brought him around, and the artist decided to put his gratitude into a picture...