Word: brokenheartedness
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While Berger's problem stems from his lack of distance, the characters barricade themselves from the audience. They never show their true faces; even the poster for Passing Strangers reveals only their silhouettes. Since they cannot communicate with themselves or others, they finally turn up emptyhanded and brokenhearted. The play...
It is from precisely such uncomfortable facts that mouthings about moral schizophrenia shield their speakers. The phrase "tragic war in Vietnam," has become a near proverb among Liberals. But "tragic" has no definite meaning; it doesn't refer to Aristotle's rules of drama, or Elizabethan concepts of the rise...
How can we e'er forget The blood that's on those British bosses, The brokenhearted mother's losses, Lonely graves, and wayside crosses, Lord, forget all that?
When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary come to me, Speaking words of wisdom, let it be . . . And when the brokenhearted people, Living in the world of grief. There will be an answer, let it be.
When tragedy broke up his happy family life, first with the death of two young sons, then his wife, Grandville's art took a grotesque turn. He started sketching his dreams and nightmares, as Baudelaire decribed it, "with all the precision of a stenographer writing down an orator'...