Word: anguishes
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...surface; jagged shapes, broken-bottle cubism, an appetite for the primitive in drawing; masklike faces, Gothic poses, extreme jumps of tone between limelight and gloom: the sum of these was not so much a style as a "look." For expressionism was largely an ethical matter, a display of exemplary anguish. It was one of the last convulsions of northern romanticism; and like all romantic painting, it was essentially an art of subject matter. The expressionist attitude lay at the opposite pole of experience from the sensuous, Cartesian quality of French art. At the time Kirchner painted his self-portrait...
...Deversoir pocket because I knew that they were my prisoners on the West Bank [of the Canal] and that their presence there meant their death. On the basis of defining and maintaining the real magnitude of my territorial victory, agreement was reached. Yet I was still in great mental anguish, because all the powers wanted to negate my victory. The United States certainly wanted to discount it, and the Soviet Union to put an end to it because Syria had suffered a setback in spite of the presence of Soviet military experts and I had a victory in spite...
More puzzling was the role of the Egyptian commandos. The second telephone call had come from Sadat. In anguish over the assassination of his friend, he begged President Kyprianou to rescue the hostages, one of whom was Egyptian, and to send the Palestinian killers to Cairo for trial. Kyprianou told him, "I personally will handle the matter...
Even Dern, stuck with the same crazy-soldier role he played in Black Sunday, manages to keep his anguish from seeming canned: as he realizes that both his wife and the war have betrayed him, the character's manic energy evaporates. Dern perfectly captures the unnerving calm of a man who has lost the will to live...
...seemed dangerously unpredictable, like a high-tension wire torn from its moorings. For the better part of a decade, Clift was the star producers sought first. But then, in the longest suicide in Hollywood history, he crushed both life and career under an avalanche of booze, pills and inexplicable anguish. He was only 45 when he died in 1966, but most people, himself included, had already attended his funeral a dozen times before...