Word: anguishingly
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...spite of the hints of movement in these stories and texts, all is really paralytic stasis-except for the voices, the indomitable voices, droning on. They are at once the final buffers and the last instruments capable of registering anguish: "Only the words break the silence, all other sounds have ceased . . . my words are my tears, my eyes my mouth...
...succeed in explaining why, but it is fairly obvious that Frau Sacher-Masoch had no intention of keeping her vows. His entreaties notwithstanding, she refused at first to be unfaithful to him, even when he went so far as to place advertisements for cuckolders in the Vienna Tageblatt. Anguished Divorce. She did try to make little compromises that might have held the marriage together. Occasionally she flew off the handle and slapped her husband around. During a literary quarrel with him, she gave him a good thrashing with one of the whips he conveniently left lying around the house...
...Christ upon the primacy of God's love for man has degenerated into a sterile bureaucracy guided by abstract legalism. Echoing charges made by many other contemporary Catholic thinkers, Kavanaugh complains that his church's strictures against marriage for priests, birth control, and divorce have caused untold anguish and suffering to the faithful. Dominated by unBiblical superstition and decadent traditionalism in everything from its sermons to parochial schools, the church, in Kavanaugh's eyes, is pathetically outdated and corrupt. "It is an arrogant church," he declares, "a smug church that can keep a billion children waiting...
...flying goddesses, this crystal-and-velvet score is the most human of Wagner's Ring operas. Conductor Herbert von Karajan's slow, deliberate pace illuminates each stroke of genius in the score, but some listeners will find that he has sacrificed passion for clarity and restrained the anguish that Wagner's wild climaxes can evoke. No matter: Jon Vickers' Siegmund is powerful and Régine Crespin's hotoyohos are properly rousing...
Moving in with the second wave of attacking troops, Cathy dodged machine-gun fire, clicked off frame after frame as she and the men scurried up the hill. She stopped long enough to record one particularly poignant sequence-a corpsman bending to help a wounded buddy, jerking upright in anguish when the man died, and plunging away, yelling "I'll kill them! I'll kill them!" At the summit she flopped into a bomb crater, kept on aiming her camera. At 22, Cathy is used to such scenes. She spends more time at the front-three weeks...