Word: distress
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...under-writer, both in style and substance, the anti-Arundhati. Upadhyay employs the kind of simple, sanded-down prose built in American creative-writing workshops, but with a touch of Buddhist detachment. He is equally austere with his typically middle-class characters?though they suffer fine shades of psychological distress, they lack the will to do anything really dramatic...
...conflict between such scenes and Christian works, instead tracing echoes between the despairing gestures of Lucretia and St. Lawrence, who allegedly was roasted to death for his religious beliefs. He even parallels Lucretia's cringing attitude with Christ tormented by Pilate's soldiers. "We begin to feel her distress, her gesture is the same as in [The Martyrdom of] St. Lawrence when there is nowhere else left to go, a final gesture of pleading for escape from your fate." Titian's art transcends violent content and sometimes battered surfaces to seduce the eye with its costly pigments and breathtaking skill...
...following department meeting, professors discussed how best to communicate this concern to the President. “The question was, how should we convey our distress?” recalled one. “ Should we invite him to a meeting, or have our chairman tell the dean who would tell the President? And then there’s that other possibility, but nobody says that. [New] was a little red in the face...
...Happily, the best places to stay in town are sensitive to the fort's distress. Forget the sprawling five-star chains on the outskirts and pick from a selection of small hotels tucked inside the battlements. The prettiest is the Killa Bhawan, tel: (91-2992) 251204, which comprises two converted town houses built right into the fort walls, with rooms decorated in vivid shades of crimson, lime and orange. Its three terraces command what might be Jaisalmer's finest sunset views, when the ancient bastions take on the color of pure honey and seem to melt into the desert backdrop...
...force at FBI headquarters, have been hindered by both the inconsistent training of new agents and the recalcitrance of older ones. "There are more chaos and morale problems [at the FBI] than there ever have been," says a former senior law-enforcement official. "There are people walking around in distress...