Word: anguishingly
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Kesey has not yet seen the film made from his book, insisting that it cannot be "truly good until they've made good with me." Still, it caused him some anguish to watch the Oscars being raked in. "I really love the movies," he says. "When they can be turned around to break your heart like this, well, it's like something that you never thought would happen...
...itself obsesses her. Ibsen uses it as a symbol, a cauldron of suppressed desires, a deep well of the unconscious. The Stranger appears and demands that she go away with him. Ellida pleads with the doctor to release her from their marriage vows. In anguish of spirit, Wangel does so, and that one act exorcises the past. As a woman "of her own free will," Ellida chooses to stay with...
...machines: a clanging of metal on metal, the twanging of invisible red-hot wires, a shuffling of wood and sand, and maybe, just maybe, the sound of something human. A woman coos in a muted voice, as if she were speaking through bed sheets. A man wails deep; his anguish, supposedly lashed to a sexual moment, is only the synthetic spawn of the recording studio--artificial, abstract. A chorus of women chant undecipherable orisons to some street-wise goddess of love. Their voices are synchronized to a single, thin line; you can't tell if there are three...
...claims of extramarital escapades by both partners, he did not clearly identify the grounds. Mrs. Firestone was awarded alimony, which Florida law bans if the grounds for a divorce include adultery. She sued Time Inc. for libel and won a jury verdict of $100,000 for her mental anguish and suffering...
...convicted by the Nuremberg Tribunal for his role in the Nazi use of forced foreign labor in German factories. In his memoirs, Inside the Third Reich, published four years after his release in 1966, Speer criticized his fellow Nazis for their refusal to admit any guilt, while professing anguish at his own crimes. He wrote at the outset of the proceedings, "The trial is necessary. There is a shared responsibility for such horrible crimes...