Word: distraughtly
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...inconsiderate of those freshman recently assigned to the House who are indeed distraught over not receiving their first choices...
...that has been unable to win their release from almost 14 months in captivity. But to the millions who see his often published picture, he is a man without identity, the unknown hostage. The State Department will not disclose his name, for fear of upsetting his already distraught family...
West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt once broke into tears in the presence of a friend, so distraught was he over his conviction that Carter did not grasp his true responsibility as leader of the U.S. The world drifts toward war, believes Schmidt, with Carter uncomprehending. The same sentiment echoes from Asia, where Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew finds Carter's vision "a sorry admission of the limits of America's power." An official of Moscow's Institute of the U.S.A. and Canada complains: "What drives us crazy about Carter is his capriciousness, his constant changing of the points...
...problems of the new translation by Sellars and Sam Guckenheimer can be addressed without giving anything away. The literal rendition into English of Gogol's gnarled, misshapen and often deliberately ungrammatical Russian has both rewards and dangers. Most of the Russian adages come across powerfully--as when the distraught mayor cries, "I have outlived my own mind!"--but occasionally lines fail to connect ("Both have fallen finger-first in heaven"). Gogol's sense of the absurd surfaces frequently and effectively in this translation, too--as in Khlestakov's repeated avowal that various important officials are "on a friendly foot with...
...nimble-footed madcap Prince of Wales," as Hotspur derisively calls him, has given himself up to bad living and bad companions, led by the fat and riotous Falstaff; his revolt against duty is a more serious threat to Henry's kingdom than Hotspur and all his kin. The distraught Henry wishes that Hotspur had been his son and it could be proved that "some night-tripping fairy" had switched babies in their cradles...