Word: anguishes
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...this evidence, and the jury was excused as the lawyers argued the point. Suddenly Stans lost his buoyant composure, burying his face in his hands, his shoulders shaking with emotion. When Judge Lee P. Gagliardi decided to allow the testimony next day, Stans' voice was strained with anguish and he was near tears as he described his wife's condition. She had been suffering from a rare blood disease that caused her to bleed from her eyes and mouth and to have 13 transfusions within a few days...
With an extraordinarily beautiful and rich tone, particularly in the low range, Francis Hester convincingly conveyed the anguish and resignation of Jesus. He generated a palpable emotional intensity in an understated, wonderfully sensitive performance. David Bachrach was an accurate and effective Pontius Pilate...
Britain's Tories were understandably apprehensive. For one thing, bushy-browed Denis Healey, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, had warned that when Labor came to power there would be "howls of anguish from the rich" and that he would squeeze them "until the pips squeak." For another, shortly before Healey brought his first budget to the House of Commons in the traditional red leather dispatch box bearing the monogram VR (for Victoria Regina), it was announced that under Conservative leadership the nation had suffered the worst monthly trade deficit in its history -$1.02 billion in February...
...effect of the work has nothing to do with expressionism. For all their thinness and scarred surfaces, Giacometti's bronzes are not about anguish or loss, loneliness or the post-Hiroshima terrors. They are emotionally quite ineloquent. This may be one reason for their survival into a time when most of the angst-pushing European sculpture of the 1940s and '50s has vanished down the historical drain. In his obsession with the difficulty of seeing, Giacometti wished to get beyond style. He partially succeeded because - paradoxical as it may seem - he was culturally saturated, an artist of enormous...
...silences on the Hill are also significant. Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott, who a few weeks ago was proclaiming Nixon's innocence, is in anguish. His voice in defense of the President is muted. Friends say that he now believes it is inevitable that Nixon will be impeached. G.O.P. Whip Robert Griffin has been a troubled man for months. Some of his colleagues would not be surprised to see him add his voice to the rising chorus for resignation...