Word: distraughtly
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...lunacy is dramatized with the piercing common sense that characterizes both Roth's funniest and soberest works. "The world is not a place on which I have influence or wish to have any," says Merry through a veil, a safety net for microbes. Swede's reply cries out to distraught parents everywhere: "You are influencing me! You who will not kill a mite are killing me...your powerlessness is power over me, goddamn...
...quoting Ms. Kirk out of context and without reference to her obvious pain or distraught state you have inflicted even more pain upon her, not the least of which is the reaction of the religious community to her alleged, and false, apostasy. It is unfortunate that in covering the news The Crimson feels that it can recklessly damage the lives of fellow Harvard students for the sake of the story...
...cheerful departures, nor by the notion that it was a small number of people exercising their own free will. "I don't consider it suicide. I consider it murder," says Janja Lalich, a cult expert who has been monitoring Heaven's Gate since 1994, when several distraught parents contacted her with their worries about their missing children. "[Applewhite] controlled it, he called the shots. These people were pawns in his personal fantasy." But Marshall Herff Applewhite has died with his followers. And they seemed so happy to have gone with him. The evidence, such as it is, is on tape...
...poet living in Mexico want to take him to see a nearby volcano. "The way," the poet is told once the trip has begun, "is to go up the mountain and make it all complete." In Helping, a man sober for 18 months starts drinking again. He tells his distraught wife that "this drink I'm having is the only worthwhile thing I've done in the last year and a half." The morning after, he assesses the repercussions. "There would be damn little justice and no mercy...
...poet living in Mexico want to take him to see a nearby volcano. ?The way,? the poet is told once the trip has begun, ?is to go up the mountain and make it all complete.? In Helping, a man sober for 18 months starts drinking again. He tells his distraught wife that ?this drink I?m having is the only worthwhile thing I?ve done in the last year and a half.? The morning after, he assesses the repercussions. ?There would be damn little justice and no mercy.? One of Stone?s stories is in fact called Absence of Mercy...