Word: distraughtly
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...mystic's mad glint for the calm smile of a mere lover of humanity. And the parable of the Fat Lady may seem intellectually underweight. But Zooey's lyric rant is not a seminarian's thesis; it is a gift of love received from Seymour and transmitted to a distraught, prayer-drunk, 20-year-old girl. Apart from questioning the depth of this message, critics?notably Alfred Kazin, who apologizes solemnly for having to say it?have suggested that the Glass children are too cute and too possessed by self-love. The charge is unjust. They are too clearly shadowed...
...what they don't." He is clearly delivering a message, more clearly because he is so out of tone with the film. This same conscious search for certainty and safety links the knight of The Seventh Seal, the aging doctor of Wild Strawberries, the Magician, and even the distraught schoolboy of the earlier and less sophisticated Torment...
...offspring, Ingrid Bergman suddenly wheeled on her preying pursuers, snapped, "I am not a rare animal," later tearfully told a reporter, "Help me go away and find a quiet place, because otherwise I'll lose my mind." Laying over briefly at the same terminal, Katharine Hepburn was equally distraught. Wearing a safari garb that turned out to be appropriate for the jungle war that en sued, she streaked through the airport, hid out in a washroom, was finally foiled only after ducking into a plane that turned out to be the wrong one. Ground ed and surrounded, Kate tried...
...servility, the British butler, has lived for generations by the code of discretion. With an impassive "Very good, sir," he nonchalantly brushes a golden hair from the lapel of an employer whose brunette wife is impatiently awaiting him. He uses exactly the right tone of gentle authority when informing distraught young ladies that his master is not at home. Family secrets are locked inside his impassive exterior as in a tomb...
...distraught Deputies threatened a nationwide strike; others swore that they would camp in his front yard until he changed his mind. Chehab's wife called him aside, and 15 minutes later the President came back to say he would stay in after all. Joyously bodyguards fired their pistols into the air. One Deputy whipped out a small submachine gun from under his flowing sports shirt and blasted away. Every light in the district, including the Chehab villa, blinked out - somebody had hit the power line. In a candlelight celebration, the Deputies ceremoniously burned the President's resignation...