Word: burnt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and cereal offerings, I will not accept them...
...oppressively style-ridden; the even earlier works of a virtually forgotten artist, Francis Gruber, whose ravaged landscapes and etiolated figures à la Jacques Callot seem to have given the much slicker Buffet most of his ideas. In sculpture there were the post-Hiroshima-style images, all spikes and burnt dribbles of welded iron, by people like Germaine Richier...
Graham Greene's architect Querry had to trek to an African leprosarium to find a metaphor adequate to express his mood; nothing less would be sufficiently wasted, blighted, defunct. Querry was, Greene meant, A Burnt-Out Case, like the leper Deo Gratias, his soul far gone. He was a masterpiece of acedia, a skull full of ashes, a rhapsodist of his own desolation...
Burnout is progressive, occurring over a period of time. Authors Robert Veninga and James Spradley define five stages that lead from a stressful job to a burnt-out case: 1) The Honeymoon-intense enthusiasm and job satisfaction that, for all but a few dynamos, eventually give way to a time when valuable energy reserves begin to drain off. 2) Fuel Shortage-fatigue, sleep disturbances, possibly some escapist drinking or shopping binges and other early-warning signals. 3) Chronic Symptoms-exhaustion, physical illness, acute anger and depression. 4) Crisis-illness that may become incapacitating, deep pessimism, self-doubt, obsession with...
...three Wimbledons and, by any measure, dominated the sport. On clay, her preferred surface, she has had winning streaks of 125 and 64 matches. At various times in her career, she has been adored as a teen-age wonder, reviled as an unbeatable superstar and written off as a burnt-out case. Through it all, she has borne herself with grace and played impeccably. For the few moments that she stood on Centre Court, the championship salver held high overhead, Wimbledon was able to forget its problems. As well it should in the presence of a queen. -By BJ. Phillips...