Word: faithlessly
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...material and Moloney's smart matching of song to singer. Sting leads off with the rapturous Mo Ghile Mear--Our Hero, a tribute to Bonnie Prince Charlie that makes the listener shiver, and sing along, with its manly melancholy. For three other star studs, Moloney provided tales of faithless women: the dirty dancer in Jones' giddily melodramatic version of Tennessee Waltz, the vixen who leads a beau to murder in Knopfler's The Lily of the West, the adulteress refusing to save her lover from the gallows in Jagger's sepulchral rendering of the title tune...
...rather slumps) the weary figure of the Rev. Lionel Espy (Oliver Ford Davies), a man who has lost not only religious faith but also the consolations of secular humanism with which he has been making do. To the political right and above him is his bishop (Richard Pasco), also faithless but fiercely insistent that his priests honor tradition. Below and to the left of Espy is young Tony Ferris (Adam Kotz), in whom ambition and evangelical zealotry are so dangerously, neurotically mixed. As pastor of a dwindling and dissatisfied slum parish, Espy can find no useful support among colleagues whose...
...Bell Jar, which Plath had published under a pseudonym in England and which her mother did not want to be published in the U.S., in order to buy a third home. Where Plath is concerned, Hughes plays two roles that are hopelessly in conflict: he is both Plath's faithless husband and also her literary executor, so whenever a writer is denied access to Plath's papers, he or she can accuse Hughes of trying to cover up his own guilt. He grants no interviews and has written no memoir. Instead of Hughes, Plath's biographers have had to deal...
...uses this violent gift in a curiously selective way. At the outset of The Shipping News, she demeans her hero, a blobby, unfocused man named Quoyle, as "a dog dressed in a man's suit for a comic photo," who possesses "a great damp loaf of a body." His faithless wife is "thin, moist, hot . . . in another time, another sex, she would have been a Genghis Khan." After they marry, her "desire reversed to detestation like a rubber glove turned inside out." But as Quoyle heads to Newfoundland and fumbles through life as a newspaperman, the author eases...
...poison of the title is ( booze; it is also the ecstasy of love. Both are the straight stuff that delivers Rory's father to hell. After the mother of his three young daughters dies, he marries Aimee Desiree, a wild Creole beauty half his age. The marriage -- and the faithless Aimee Desiree -- is doomed. She meets her fate at 3 a.m. in a white Thunderbird hurtling along a narrow causeway across Lake Pontchartrain. The daughters never hear their father mention her again, but the moment of her passing envelopes each of them. The author understands a fundamental truth about Southerners...