Word: frailness
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...last week, on a precedent-breaking trip to the Holy Land, his impressive character emerged with clarity. Time and again the frail, 66-year-old Pontiff found himself engulfed by riotous mobs in an almost carnival mood that-in all innocence-threatened his life. It was a severe test. By meeting it with unfaltering patience and good humor, Paul VI appeared before the world as more than merely an intellectual pastor; he stood forth as a man of intense inward dedication, piety and exemplary courage...
These were heavy thoughts, sad thoughts to people who had learned long ago to build hope on frail foundations. There were little groups of East Berliners who stood at the gaps in the Wall, watching the Western influx although they expected no visitors. Near the Friedrichstrasse Station, one old woman shook hands with every willing Westerner. "My son fled after it had become a crime to flee," she explained. "So he can't come. Still, it's good to see you." Whispered a grizzled World War I veteran: "Who in a prison isn't pleased when there...
...that is sustained throughout the picture. White and blue-gray winters, lugubrious shots of motley interiors, and overcast hunting scenes do at least as much to develop moods as the dialogue and acting. Though masterful in its own right, Renoir's delicate camerawork also does much to control the frail and precise despair that makers End of Desire an excellent movie...
...final scene, as husband and wife head homeward, the man pulls his car up to a crossroad, immobilized by circumstances and the contradictions of his own nature, literally asking himself which way to turn. The camera pulls back to watch the car squatted there, frozen in time, unforgettable, a frail heap of nuts and bolts suddenly alive with one man's pride, guilt, confusion and despair...
William James looked doubtfully at the frail, pockmarked, rather effeminate Harvard freshman. "You don't really want to go in for philosophy, do you?" he asked George Santayana...