Word: distresse
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...transcends petty provincialism, instead exploring complex relationships of all sorts and the various ways in which they intertwine and affect the individual. Though the characters in each story differ vastly from each other in circumstances and personality, they all share the common thread of facing some sort of personal distress. Eisenberg tells each story from multiple perspectives to capture this distress, switching seamlessly from third person narrative to interior monologue. These transitions are initially confusing, but as the story continues, the reader learns to recognize each character’s voice and perspective and becomes absorbed...
...just went crazy. I was so restrained and constricted to nothing but tennis and school. Everything was strict when I was playing tennis. I just lost it.” Ko realized she needed a break and a chance to explore her other interests. Much to the distress of her coaches, she did not play her freshman year. She used this time to develop other passions, like photography and painting. She also wrote for Current Magazine, volunteered with Mission Hill Afterschool Program, and became business chair of Ivory Tower, Harvard’s soap opera.But, she says, a part...
...advances in neuroscience caused psychotherapy to be neglected in medical education, says Louise Newman, director of the New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry. Lately, she says, "we've reintroduced psychotherapy principles in the first year of training"; the aim is "returning to a more holistic approach" to treating mental distress. For the afflicted who want neither to take drugs nor be grilled about intimacies by a doctor, that can only be good news...
...back three match points in the second set, but eventually won in a tiebreaker and then ran away with the supertiebreaker, 10-4.Although no other Crimson players won their matches, all took important steps forward in the contest, according to Fish.“Ashwin put his opponent in continual distress,” Fish said, referring to Ashwin Kumar’s match against 44th-ranked Matko Maravic at No. 2. “It’ll be a great match to build on.”MICHIGAN STATE 4, HARVARD 3In its first match of the season, Harvard...
...have turned to more respectable forms of watercolors - what could easily be recognized as art, if not great art - in their twilight years. But in their prime, when Elder and Feldstein (and Herriman and Segar and King) were doing their most vigorous work, sending out comic distress signals under the academic radar, they probably didn't think of themselves as Picassos...