Word: beset
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...apart in my mind, and I think it is grounded in people’s firm understanding of who they are and where they stand in the world. Most Egyptians I have talked to make no illusions about it: they are living in a Pax Americana, in a region beset with strife and economic hardship, and they want two things: jobs and peace. Getting there won’t take an “Operation Egyptian Freedom”— it will take cooperation between us Americans and the people of this region...
...become junkies or run away from home. Even the mealymouthed money-lender and the neighborhood busybody are staples of Subcontinental literature, although Ali fuses them together in the unusually female form of Mrs. Islam. As a result, it is almost impossible to feel for these people when they are beset by their many, mostly minor, tragedies. It's hard even to feel sorry for poor Hasina when she gets so little sympathy from her creator: Ali leaves her story unexplained and incomplete. Hasina, too, is a stereotype, the innocent rustic who goes to the city to find love and happiness...
...comically, often stupidly, out of control and needs a lot of career guidance. Sometimes it's a touching film, especially in the scenes dealing with Liam's sister Chantelle (Annmarie Fulton), a single mom bravely struggling to raise her baby decently in an environment full of crime and beset by hopelessness...
...intensive training to master the East Berlin accent. His gullible mother is played by famed East German actress Katrin Sass. Other East German actors helped revise the script to eliminate expressions and slang not used in the East. The film, which cost j4 million to make, was initially beset by bad luck. Frequent storms halted filming, a number of actors fell ill, and it proved difficult to remake the East Berlin neighborhood to look like 1989 - all the parking meters had to be removed, for example. The key moment in the film, when the mother sees a Soviet helicopter carrying...
When first-years arrive on campus each fall, they are beset with a variety of placement tests to determine the nature and extent of their background preparation in fields such as mathematics, writing, and foreign languages...