Word: anguishingly
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...gray lady who appears now and then in the chapel, a pair of 15th century noblemen damned to play dice forever in the castle tower, someone who used to whip bedclothes off sleepers, and a woman without a tongue who runs across the park every night pointing in dumb anguish to her wounded mouth...
...been a time of trauma for the pets of France. Left behind by vacationing owners who believe that animals, like some good wines, do not travel well, they have languished in crowded kennels, often going on hunger strikes or catching troublesome diseases. For many French pets, those weeks of anguish are now a thing of the past. For about $3 per day, a new pet vacation club will find a pet-loving, nonvacationing family that will take in a cat or a dog-or even a parakeet or snake-during the owner's absence...
Nixon can undoubtedly survive the anguish on the right. What matters most, both for Nixon's political fortunes and the best interests of the U.S., is the eventual outcome of the trip. Its success lies largely in the hands of a wily and America-wise Chinese leader, Chou Enlai, and Washington's warnings against expectations of spectacular results were surely justified. But on balance, the bold mission to Peking is more than anything else an occasion of hope and opportunity...
Dame Margot still conveys expressive wonders with her exquisite arms, but she clearly is out of step with the acrobatic Cranko style, and her miming of anguish and passion looks rather like a put-on. Poème, in short, is less a tribute to her glamour than an unintentionally cruel exploitation of her age and fading skills...
Disappointing Bergman Itis impossible to be quite fair enough to Ingmar Bergman. He has done too well. Too much is demanded. In a career of more than 25 years, he has made half a dozen films that must be considered great. His anguish after God, his personal pain and his peerless intellect have yielded such classics as The Naked Night (1953), The Seventh Seal (1956) and Wild Strawberries (1958). Of his more recent films, Persona is one of the most complex personal works in all of the cinema, and Shame and The Passion of Anna should be counted among...