Word: anguish
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...herself incapable of escaping her own gift for composing, and in the end is able to rise above the tragedy and use her talent. Juliette Binoche is essential to all of this expression. She embodies the hardness of Julie's resentment with diamond-sharp precision. Her face shows the anguish, the anger and the vulnerability of the character perfectly. She shows how a modern woman copes with the liberty that in the past has been kept from her. Underneath the guarded, impassive façade stands a feeling, compassionate person capable of suffering and surviving...
...have got to the Keystone kids months ago. And he agrees with Kotlowitz: "The President doesn't understand what the conditions are in the inner cities. In many respects children in the U.S. are in worse shape than children in Third World countries." His voice betrays commitment and real anguish; all that is missing is hope...
...evidence proves both that Lorena Bobbitt was abused and that she had good reason to feel enraged at her husband. There is no denying the anguish and sense of powerlessness women feel when trapped in such destructive marital relationships. As a Venezuelan immigrant, she may not have realized that there were resources she could turn to as a battered woman. Married at an early age and after here recent immigration, she may have clung to Jon Bobbitt as both an emotional and financial buoy...
...most of us, skeptical of the promise of a lifetime of happiness, which, to quote Shaw, "no person alive could bear...it would be hell on earth." We're familiar with the legendary tales of the anguish women in 1950's faced upon marriage, the prospect of 45 years of doing exciting things with Tupperware and runcible spoons. We know that Norman Rockwell lied...
...moment of high agitation she may drag on a Gauloise. A vision of dyspeptic distress, she is a modernist pinup for the monastic voyeur behind the camera. When the woman is lovely, pouty Juliette Binoche, and the director is Krzysztof Kieslowski, the picture can become the X ray of anguish: not stargazing but soul gazing...