Word: anguishes
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...drama imagines what might have happened at the meeting in occupied Denmark between Heisenberg, chief of Hitler's atom-bomb program, and Bohr, his Jewish mentor. Did Heisenberg, postulator of the uncertainty principle, attempt to extract information from Bohr? Or did he use the meeting to confess his anguish over helping Hitler? The latter is what the play suggests. But last week Americans got a different version of the story, when unsent letters Bohr wrote Heisenberg were released. In them Bohr (who later fled to the U.S. and worked on the Manhattan Project) evinces dismay at Heisenberg's assertion during...
...Over 40 minutes long and divided into eight sections, it includes an overture with a full orchestra. “Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence” is an intense musical experience of the typical Dream Theater variety that deals with the phenomenon of inner anguish and turmoil in today’s seemingly content youth...
...that emerges from the depth of her soul. She is a humanistic—rather than intellectual—artist. Almost childlike in her openness, she reveals her whole self while performing. Too intense to be hip, but too in-your-face to be condescended to, she conveys the anguish of existence with a furious energy. Like some kind primal being, Finley expresses the inexpressible and demonstrates the power of pure emotion...
There's a difference too between this debate and the anguish millions of parents endure, and put their kids through, while trying to decide whether to live together or apart. Compared with that, a scholarly family feud may seem a mere tempest in a teacup...
Some have complained recently about the presence of Christmas trees as “religious symbols” in the Houses. In response to this anguish over the existence of a tree with lights on it, several Harvard commentators have said that the Christmas tree has mostly become a secular item. Even where it is not purely secular, they say, it has no overtones specific to any one faith...