Word: anguishingly
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...feel pity for brute creation. In the name of religion, of commerce, of sport, of science, man has from the beginning tormented and slaughtered these less fortunate ones. Now little Able and Baker carry on the story of man's prowess with the helpless. Four mice have known anguish in a nose cone that became a flaming oven. These are the forerunners of a host of speechless creatures that will be shot into air as coldly and indifferently as spitballs...
Ulanova displayed a mastery so complete that technique itself seemed to disappear, letting emotion flood the stage. In the first act Ulanova was a shy girl, trembling with anguish and expectation on the edge of maturity. In a remarkable series of movements, expressions and gestures, she mimed her unfolding first love, with its joys and terrors wavering through her like a fever. At first as tremulous in her movements as a butterfly fluttering from a chrysalis, she broadened her movements as the act progressed into ardently flowing figures that beautifully and simply evoked her stirring feelings. After her betrayal...
...suffered a strange and horrible schizo-religious vision. Set down in a slim volume called Miss Lonelyhearts, published in 1933 under the pen name of Nathanael West, his experience was acclaimed as a masterpiece of the peculiar literature of phantasmagoria-a vision of hell on earth, a scream of anguish at the meaninglessness of human suffering...
...Bontzolakis is not alone in equating abstractionism with emotional disturbance. Arts quoted another Paris doctor: "In abstract art, the process of creation is ... the famous Rorschach test reversed." Said another: "Abstract art translates a disturbance which is perhaps only the anguish of these painters backed against the wall...
...quieter moods of such a song as Scarlet Ribbons he may stand perfectly straight, his head and shoulders pinned by the spotlight, lips eloquently pursed. In Sinner's Prayer, his face contorts in anguish; in Mark Twain it breaks wide in gutty laughter. When he attacks Love, Love Alone, a comic number, he often throws his arms wide, pivots in an arc from the waist and wobbles his head to the rhythm while he delivers the calypso lyrics with an impudent grin...