Word: dreadfulness
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Although this specific dread is unacknowledged by the autobiographer, it seems to be the subtext of the hearing and all that follows: "I had been led on into a strange country, a country that knew no boundaries and was called Pain." Terrified of strangers, besieged by reporters, taunted in schools, Gloria blinks through a chaos of flashbulbs and interrogations; in a nation wasted by the Depression, she becomes America's real-life Little Orphan Annie...
...most frightening manifestation of this dread disease is what I've come to call temperature mania." It's that everwhelming desire, nay passion, to know the exact temperature in both Fahrenhett and Celsius. The worth of everyday comes to be measured in degrees and the mention of rain can throw a damper (pun intended) on the entire week Forget papers, studying for finals, even extracurriculars. What really counts is that it is sunny and warm and the smell of spring...
Lurking behind the statistics are daily degradations that account for the dread most New Yorkers feel upon descending into the underworld at any hour. It is astounding that residents of one of the world's greatest cities must submit to a daily assault of subterranean sights, sounds and smells so fraught with menace. At rush hour in the Times Square station, where eight of the city's busy lines converge, a man urinates against a wall, loudly talking to no one in particular. On one platform, waiting passengers cover their ears as a mass of hurtling steel comes screeching from...
...pathetic as the tiny, dilapitated room in which they take place. He is dwarfed by a huge video screen as he sits hunched and writes in his diary, an action that seems both puny and heroic. Throughout the film, Hurt never loses that peculiar combination of hope and fatalistic dread that at the same time motivates and restricts Winston...
...pathetic as the tiny, dilapitated room in which they take place. He is dwarfed by a huge video screen as he sits hunched and writes in his diary, an action that seems both puny and heroic. Throughout the film, Hurt never loses that peculiar combination of hope and fatalistic dread that at the same time motivates and restricts Winston...