Word: distraughtly
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...emotion it has stirred, the attack remains shrouded in mystery. The accounts of the Bannas' reported exuberance at Ra'ed's funeral have been refuted by other accounts of the event, which depict the family as distraught. In interviews with TIME at their home in Amman, al-Banna's family members denied that Ra'ed was the Hilla bomber; instead, they say, he died in an insurgent operation in Mosul. They point out that Al-Ghad later retracted its report citing Ra'ed as the culprit. In some respects, the Bannas resemble the many other families around the Arab world...
...wanderlust out of me," the smitten Mary confesses. The book's focus quickly shifts to two other members of the Sayonara circle who tell their entwined stories in alternating chapters. One is Sato, a conscientious corporate drone who is dragged to the lounge by his boss. Sato is distraught over the recent death of his wife and disgusted by the bar and its raucous clientele, whom he sees as symptomatic of Japan's loss of discipline and economic leadership. What he doesn't see is the conspiracy that will lead to his own professional disgrace. The other fixture is Watanabe...
...earned in one and a half hours. Her final job, working in two nursing homes, is eye-witness journalism at its best in its disturbing depiction of the grueling labor and the wretchedness of the fading lives around her - some residents tied to chairs, others wandering in a distraught daze, looking for their children...
...single personal item," Tripp recounts, "but drones on in a 1,575-word account of a local murder trial. Hard to find anything less personal than that, yet it is precisely this kind of impersonal recounting of some irrelevant bit of news that is often resorted to by distraught lovers who are contending with some strain and who thus choose to recount details from a neutral territory as they wait out a storm that swirls about them." Absent anything more incriminating, however, such as accounts by someone who saw the two having sex or expressions of carnal desire from Lincoln...
Remember the Pepsi Challenge? It was what we can call a "Classic" example of the limits of Blink-style thinking. According to Gladwell, Coca-Cola executives were so distraught over statistics showing that Pepsi beat Coke in those blind, one-sip face-offs that they came up with New Coke. New Coke beat Pepsi in taste tests, but it flopped spectacularly in the market. The geniuses at Coca-Cola had forgotten that the real world is very different from a focus group. Nobody drinks Coke blind, nor do they just take one sip. Consumers drink a whole can, and that...