Word: distraughtly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which they had planted plastic explosives. Then, just as Portuguese security forces began cordoning off the area, a violent explosion blasted the windows out of the first-floor room. As a wounded Atasay slid down the residence staircase to safety through the billowing smoke, security policemen, accompanied by the distraught charge, dashed into the damaged building. On the ground floor, they found the fatally burned Cahide Mihçioĝlu; upstairs, a Portuguese policeman lay dead not far from the charred corpses of the four assailants...
...intended for public television, that is based on an Indian fable about an encounter with evil. She also reports "good progress" on her second novel, which retells the history of the Western Hemisphere from an Indian perspective. Her first novel, Ceremony, published in 1977 by Viking, was about a distraught Indian veteran of World War II. Although praised by critics, the book sold only 7,500 copies...
...death toll may be higher. According to another unconfirmed report, a freight train was crossing the bridge at the time of the crash and several cars toppled off, possibly crashing through to the ship's jammed upper deck. Witnesses claim that only 40 people were rescued. Said a distraught resident of Ulyanovsk: "There is great chaos in the city. People are crying in the streets...
...center and the source and the victim of a storm of wing beats; we were at the top of the world; the huge bird of God's body in us hovered; the great miracle pounded on her back, pounded around us; she was straining and agonized and distraught, estranged within this corporeal-incorporeal thing, this angelic other avatar, this other substance of herself...
Reagan's philosophies seemed destined to provoke a new brand of despair among Washington regulars. With telling prescience. Garry Trudeau last year penned several sketches of a distraught EPA employee whose premonitions of policy reversals sent him scurrying to the narrow ledge outside his office window. The scene could have transpired equally well at any number of federal agencies, such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or the Department of Education...