Word: gauntly
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...sputter of midnight traffic had given way to the long wait for dawn when the 1,400 inmates of Rawalpindi District Jail began to pray. Imperceptibly at first, their murmur grew as they recited from the Koran; the time for execution was approaching. Shortly before 2 a.m., the prisoner, gaunt and ailing, was led from his dungeon death cell to the scaffolding. His hands were tied behind his back. Stepping to the gallows he cried out, according to one account, "Oh Lord, help me, for I am innocent!" Thirty-five minutes later, the body was cut down, taken away...
...there than the slaughter of whole scenes, a violence often done to Shakespeare. With some notable exceptions, the performances range from competent to brilliant, and a whole stable of Britain's fine character actors trot through the familiar minor parts: John Gielgud as the righteous John of Gaunt, Celia Johnson as Juliet's nurse and Michael Hordern as her father...
...neighboring Pakistan, another deposed leader was having what may be his last day in court. Pale, shaking and gaunt, former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto emerged from 15 months in solitary confinement to appeal the death sentence handed down by a Pakistan court for plotting the murder of a political opponent...
...style is not frenzied-he is notably calm, in fact-but it is unusually intense. It suits a man widely deferred to as a wizard, but it would not do, say, for a renowned comic performer, a wisecracking green frog. And the curious truth about this gaunt, bearded, rather ascetic-looking craftsman, as he admits, is that "my nature is not particularly witty." He is funny only with Kermit on his arm, and the same thing seems to be true of Frank Oz and the other Muppet people...
...Childhood, Crews turns to non-fiction and grants his landscape something it never had before - credibility. The place is Georgia; the time, the Depression, when "there wasn't enough cash money in the county to close up a dead man's eyes." His people are the forlorn, gaunt sharecroppers fixed in the grim photographs of Walker Evans. James Agee, whose Let Us Now Praise Famous Men accompanied Evans' work, portrayed his subjects with the sympathies of an outsider; Crews evokes them with a familial intimacy...