Word: anguish
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Twisting and turning, she took her audience with her on her Errand into the Maze, the soul's fight against fear. After that one, Martha took seven curtain calls. But as she proceeded with her company into other labyrinthine concepts, such as Eye of Anguish and Cave of the Heart, the applause dwindled. At the finale, most of the bravos came from U.S. fans...
...terms: Robinson must stay above reproach while proving himself as a hitter, fielder and base runner; he must turn the other cheek to the inevitable abuse of the crowds, the rival teams and his own teammates. A poorly written script suggests but hardly exploits the dramatic conflicts and personal anguish of Robinson's hard-won success, first with Montreal and then with the Dodgers. Its arguments for tolerance and fair play, as spoken flourishingly by Actor Watson, are overwrought and sometimes speciously reasoned. Its footage is cluttered with sports announcers telling the audience things that the picture ought...
Soon there were cries of anguish from U.S. bird lovers. The violent, aggressive English sparrows were too successful. Wherever the sparrows came, bluebirds and wrens got out. Audubon Society members reported heartrending sights of native birds being pursued, insulted and pecked by sparrows...
...decisive American experience-the warning against politics based on principles-took place between 1850 and 1860. A subtle and healing compromise had been effected in 1850; yet year by year, whether through fate or human folly, it slowly disintegrated. The best men watched in anguish but could not halt the ruin. In the name of principles and distinctive tenets the Whig Party was ground to bits...Finally, the same 'principles' broke the Democratic party, and the Union of 1789 perished...
...Eliot's play is concerned with the anguish and isolation of a woman meant for sainthood but enmeshed in London's cocktail circuit...