Word: anguishingly
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...simmering minihell of incessantly frustrated emotions in a barren provincial outpost of non-civilization, this particular cast stirs up only a tempest in a samovar. Vanya should be compacted of anguish; Hutt is merely consumed by pique. When he shoots at Serebriakov and misses him twice, one hears only the toy pistol retort of a toyed-with emotion...
...hard questions. Moreover, many sympathetic foreign observers of Israel are concerned about a kind of national neurosis that goes beyond what is frequently called its Holocaust complex. Reports TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff: "Israelis have a world view so charged with the desolation of the past and the anguish of living memory that all sense of trust has been eradicated. Many Jews today are tormented by the past, troubled by the present, fearful of survival in the future. Asked about the occupation, they respond that it is benign, that the Palestinians never had it so good, that anyway Israel...
...spontaneous outpouring of sorrow suddenly supplanted the cynicism with which many Italians had come to regard the kidnaping. Flags fell to half-staff. Both chambers of parliament closed to hold memorial sessions. Crowds poured into the piazzas of the cities to vent their anguish and their frustration. Most supported the government's refusal to negotiate with the Red Brigades terrorists for Moro's life. Some did not. One small band of protesters marched outside the headquarters of the Christian Democrats, shouting: "It is you who have killed...
...their "mink-swathed" wives. The planners intended this symbolic Washington tea party to be a protest against an unfair tax policy. Complains Robert Worcester, co-chairman of the group: "An awful lot of people have gone back already, and the indecision by Congress is causing a great deal of anguish. People don't know what...
...plot of Caligula is unspectacular: young, idealistic prince turns into ruthless emperor; ruthless emperor regrets past sins and kills himself--a Freudian explanation for the motives behind the suicide (the death of the emperor's sister-mistress) is available for those non-believers in the true power of spiritual anguish. But the philosophical and moral message of the play is much closer to post-Marxian France than to Rome during the Pax Romana. The young, callow Caligula recognizes the hypocrisy of the dominant values and mores. Devoted to exposing the irrationality of society, he sets out to accomplish the impossible...