Word: anguishes
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...receiving line was First Vice Chairman and Premier Hua Kuo-feng. His face was drawn and racked with grief. He looked older than when I had seen him up close during the visit of former President Nixon last February. Hua then appeared to be imperturbable and placid. Despite the anguish on his face, Hua's gestures were certain and he shook hands firmly. Yet the immensity of the challenge he faces was etched into his features, lines of tension and shock betraying deep emotion and pain...
...official dualistic Christianity posits an infinite gulf between the two. That gulf may be bridged by God's grace, but even then the mystic cannot be God. Fusion is heresy. Lacking God's grace, the Christian mystic must wait for it in an anguish known as accidia or "the dark night of the soul." But even when grace is given, as Bharati reads the situation, the Christian mystic must dissemble his experience through a series of tricky theological mirrors. He is a sacred maverick who goes straight to the boss over the heads of middle management, and clerical...
...freshly combed and suited up for a triumphal appearance they would never make, they still seemed an implausible pair. Ronald Reagan was surrounded by his gleaming staff of Californians, and so the anguish of the moment in which he finally lost the nomination was somewhat obscured. But Richard Schweiker was alone; without friends and sycophants, he showed his dismay...
...public Pat Nixon projected a stiff, almost plastic image-one that served well to conceal her inner anguish. Intimates say it also obscured a warmth and liveliness enjoyed only by those who knew her offstage. Yet her ordeal was obviously great as her husband, in the twilight of his presidency, lied to the public-and apparently even to his family-about the Watergate cover-up and was forced out of office. Most humiliating in more recent days was the Bob Woodward-Carl Bernstein description of a cold Nixon marriage, her consideration of divorce in 1962, her seeking solace in drink...
...York City, also Episcopal, is much further from completion. Begun in 1892, it still lacks three towers and two transepts. In 1967 then Bishop Horace Donegan decreed that the building, which stands on Amsterdam Avenue at the edge of Harlem, would remain unfinished until "the despair and anguish of our disadvantaged people have been relieved." The present bishop, Paul Moore Jr., however, thinks that the cathedral should be finished, and he may launch a fund-raising effort...