Word: anguishingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congressmen who represent the stricken areas, flew to the Midwest to see the damage for himself. He walked through the debris, examined the destruction, talked to survivors, assured them that the Government would help them get back on their feet again. When he left, his face reflected the same anguish that he had seen in the eyes of the tornado victims...
Rubek speaks for a disillusioned Ibsen. The occasional awkwardness of When We Dead Awaken and the bitterness of its themes have a common source. Its anguish is the pessimism of a 71-year-old dramatist who would never compose another Master-Builder or Hedda Gabler. When We Dead Awaken is not a fitting conclusion to Ibsen's career. Especially in the third act, set on a mountain peak, Ibsen resorts to artificial contrivances that are not characteristic...
...rate, the program is saturated with all the fashionably despairing notions that stir tempests in the espresso cups of Greenwich Village coffeehouses. The angst comes in all flavors and includes Everyman's thwarted desire to communicate with Everyman, the torment of the creative artist, the solitary anguish of existence, and the torturing sense of living in the shadow of the Apocalypse...
Expert beyond experience, He knew the anguish of the marrow The ague of the skeleton; No contact possible to flesh Allayed the fever of the bone...
...ground that Winchell's pufflicity implied "intimate dealings with gamblers, that plaintiff had been engaged in gambling orgies and that he was heavily indebted to various gamblers, shady characters and persons of ill repute." The item, he said, had caused him "great pain and mental anguish," and had held him up "to contempt and reproach...