Word: anguishingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agree that the graffito is a "sensitive barometer of change in popular preoccupations" and that for some adults, especially the introverted, it may be the only satisfying creative outlet. The crucial factor in graffiti interpretation is the tone. The flippancy is often mere camouflage for metaphysical anguish...
...regain his selfesteem, the loser typically reduces his anguish by explaining away his defeat. Show business's fallen stars often justify their decline in terms of a mysterious force known as The Breaks (another word for fate). Other losers absorb defeat by joining a less competitive game, such as local community activism, which gives them a new chance to emerge as winners...
...with him. Regan and Goneril are, in effect, a stern, unyielding common mother fiercely chastising an obstreperous child. Cobb is equally good at conveying the sense of age: he is old inside as well as outside. The years are numbered in his white hairs, but there is also the anguish of diminished manhood, the baffled rage at seeing his own young wield the force that was once solely his prerogative...
...short story. This is an experiment at contrapuntal fiction, for the two tales are linked in a number of ways, including the presence in both of a common character-a slightly rumpled female named Tillie Seltzer. Taken together, they are outwardly frivolous, ultimately marked by an unsettling blend of anguish and resignation...
...course, rising from the anguish following the murder of the Rev. Martin Luther King, has been swaddled in controversy since its beginning. The attack, for the most part, comes from black students complaining of white lecturers, white textbooks and white outlook. Defenders of the course are willing to concede the possibility of a misstep but maintain that it is at least a misstep in the right direction...