Word: anguishingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Hooker does stick to the blues, watch out. He peppers the blues with his biting guitar licks and genuine squeals of anguish. Indeed, it seems as if nothing goes right in his life. Hooker sings of heartbreak, airline delays and biblical floods with the typical personal torment that makes the blues so affecting...
Convinced as I am that the true aesthetic event is always human anguish transfigured (resolved) into an aesthetic act or object, I see the Bill T. Jones work as a possible incarnation of this belief. Is it? Does Jones' use of videotaped portraiture of anguish and suffering find aesthetic transfiguration in the dancers' action? Or is the work ``just'' a morality play...
...result, "the plaintiffs suffered and will suffer great pain of body and anguish of mind, reduced earning capacity and have been and will be obligated to expend large sums of money for their medical care andexpenses," the suit reads...
Potent psychoactive drugs have enabled people once paralyzed by schizophrenia and depression to lead productive lives. Even so, pills have not vanquished mental anguish. While the rate of suicide is falling in the population as a whole, it is rising alarmingly among people ages 15 to 24 and among those over...
...hand, the present time seems dramatically immoral, one of the sleazier, stupider, more violent periods of American history. On the other hand -- or perhaps merely as a result -- Americans have become the world's most relentless moralizers, engaged in moral improvisation and soul-searching with a focused anguish not seen since the days of St. Anthony and the desert monks...