Word: anguishes
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...plight of the wretched Vietnamese Boat People should make all of us cry in anguish. Can't we find a way to offer sanctuary to those desperate enough to flee from their homes instead of witnessing repeated capsizings of old tubs, drownings and miserable wanderings because no port is open to them? We are such a big country and they...
...particular findings to detect their limits. Let the stunning statistic from the Utah study stand-but add to it the universal knowledge that roughly ten out often people suffer "adverse emotional reactions" to life itself. Those who do not ought to have their heads examined. Even saints-especially saints-anguish. Evidently humankind from ages immemorial has known a rough time in that darkest gully of the year the season of the winter solstice. In fact, most historians agree that it was precisely to relieve the morbidity inherent in the season that the species invented the extravagant celebrations that have endured...
William Cohen, 38, first broke into the national scene as the young Congressman from Maine whose boyish face registered his anguish during the House Judiciary Committee's televised debates over the impeachment of Richard Nixon. Deftly turning phrases (Cohen has published a book of poetry, Of Sons and Seasons), he explained that circumstantial evidence was enough to support a vote of impeachment. "Conspiracies are not born in the sunlight," he said. "They are hatched in dark recesses, amid whispers and code words." A former Bowdoin College basketball star who frequently quotes from the Latin classics, Cohen still carries that same...
...most sonorous pictorial eloquence is placed at the service of incommunicable feelings, and the sad facts of Rothko's life rush in to complete the missing subject matter. In a sense, the late works are declarations of the impotence of painting: it could not blot up enough anguish, or take the burden of existence away from the artist. The Black Hole expanded to fill the canvas, but no surface could contain the hole. ?Robert Hughes
...student would imitate the master of his craft. The effort, though somewhat over-wrought, like that of a too-careful student, succeeds. A talented cast, well-directed, saves the heavy screenplay from sinking into murky melodrama. Mary Beth Hurt, as the youngest daughter, the one with "all the anguish of an artistic personality without any of the talent," is especially good in her film debut. And Geraldine Page evokes the neurotic woman "too perfect to live in this world" with startling precision...