Word: distraughtly
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...jubilant B.U. team mobbed victorious goalie Ed Walsh in front of Section 18, one distraught Harvard rooter screamed something less than complimentary in the direction of two Terriers on the perimeter of the swarm. This prompted a digital symbol and a kind reply by B.U.'s Bob Sunderland...
Truffaut chronicles all their vagaries with tolerance and bemusement. He makes film making, even at its most scrambled, seem wonderfully fulfilling. The general air of celebration is seductive, but it dulls from time to time the film's cunning edge of irony. When Truffaut reassures a distraught Jean-Pierre Léaud that "people like us are only happy in our work," or when Jacqueline Bisset risks a secure marriage to spend the night with Léaud-for reasons that seem both unconvincingly melodramatic and obscure-the movie begins to sound a little defensive and boosterish, like...
...people in the world today, however, cannot afford to be philosophers. They are preoccupied by more immediate problems--problems which can be understood and resolved without any recourse to an ethereal metaphysics. Vietnamese peasants were distraught in the 1930s not because they wondered if Victor Hugo was a deity, but because French colonialism was destroying their traditional society. American young people today are not confused because they find it difficult to choose between the merits of the Guru and the Yogi, but because this country is rocked by a deep structural and ideological crisis, a crisis for which no group...
...August 1962, the French President's black Citroën ran into a barrage of submachine-gun fire. The colonel riding next to the chauffeur yelled to his father-in-law in the back seat: "Father, get down!" The tall, imperial figure budged not an inch. Again the distraught colonel pleaded: "I beg you, Father, get down." This time the President leaned slightly forward. A split second later, a stream of bullets ripped through the limousine. When the firing stopped, Charles de Gaulle flicked fragments of the broken rear window from his coat and declaimed: "What, again...
...public pride, and she compromises the sticky edges of her personality to fit into his mold of ideal femininity. To wheedle money out of him, (she lacks, of course, an income of her own) she performs a child's trick of jumping up and down squealing like a partridge distraught. It is a disturbing picture--a woman denied her womanhood cannot grow up. So she resorts to the tactics of the little girl who flatters her father when she craves...