Word: anguish
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...plead ignorance. Franz plays the part in all Miller's intended misogyny, unaware of any alternative interpretation for a complex character who keeps her family together in the most harrowing of times. Her affectedly frail voice and inability to complete a scene without crying are a true source of anguish to the viewer...
...moral courage is matched by her moral acuity. She opens herself up not just to the condemned man but also to the families of his victims, thereby squaring the movie's moral drama. Whatever she may think about the brutal finality of capital punishment, she cannot deny the anguish of these victims, the brutal finalities that a terrible crime has imposed on them...
...Bosnia. The U.N. allies would withdraw in disgrace. The capital of Sarajevo--whose residents stood in line each day for water and prayed that the Serbs' artillery barrage would not fall on them--would be captured. The dream of "Greater Serbia" might be realized. Our anguish mingled with the faint hope that the international community's latest humiliation might be its last, that the fall of Srebrenica would prompt the Western powers to respond...
With that, Packwood's political nightmare--and the one he had threatened to visit upon his Senate colleagues--was laid to rest. By bowing out now, Packwood spared the Senate the dual anguish of deliberating over the ouster of one of its own members while seeing a huge agenda to pass welfare reform, Medicare and other budget cutbacks, and tax reductions derailed by an ugly floor fight. Had Packwood battled on, he might have become the first Senator since the Civil War--and the 16th in history--to be expelled. The committee's damning recommendation left little doubt...
...part of the nato force to implement the peace. Western Europe's capitals signed up for the deal, so eager are they to be free of Bosnia. An accident on the road to Sarajevo in which three key American officials and a French peacekeeper were killed, prompted personal anguish, but the U.S. peace mission pushed on. Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who had been shopping the formula around the Balkans, won a cordial reception from Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who stands to gain relief from the U.N. economic embargo...