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...Layla’s fate. Two examples of Indian art, the paintings “Tormented Lovers” and “Majnun with Gazelle,” portray Majnun as an archetype of religious piety. While these two paintings come from different time periods, Majnun appears gaunt and modest throughout, symbolizing his unearthliness and piety.With its bold colors and broad brush strokes, the 18th-century painting “Tormented Lovers” adopts the artistic style of its contemporaries, but maintains an attention to detail and a religious interpretation consistent with older versions of the tale: Majnun?...
...became a fugitive. A year later, he was on the FBI's 10-most-wanted list until his arrest in August 2006 in Las Vegas. Police found $53,000 in cash as well as cell phones, wigs and laptops. When he appeared at preliminary hearings, he seemed even more gaunt than before. He was reported to have gone for days without food or water and knelt so long in prayer that he got ulcers on his knees...
...keeping with the somber mood of the Independence Day festivities at the governor's mansion. There was little of the chest-thumping pride or fireworks on display for the few hundred guests - European consuls fiddling with ties in the muggy heat; old freedom fighters standing tall, their faces gaunt and expressionless. Sixty years after the waning British Empire hastily departed after jotting down some lines on a map turning one country into two, the Indian Subcontinent has cause to both mourn and celebrate the day of its bitterly won freedom. Indeed, Indian independence day ceremonies are largely stoic affairs, steeped...
...pressure, I'd be in that room a lot longer." His surly captors drove Johnston to Haniyeh's modest residence. Fed only on cheese, potatoes and bread during his months of solitary confinement, Johnston was obviously grateful for the huge breakfast laid out for him by Haniyeh, and the gaunt Scot was shown on TV wolfing down food as he answered questions about his abduction. He described his kidnappers as "dangerous and unpredictable...
...partake in their meandering adventures, Chevalier presents them as spectators to a veritable litany of social injustices. We see Maisie and other young women who seem not to have received the old adage that a reformed rake does not make the best husband, desperate women turned “gaunt and pockmarked” whores, heartrending cries from Bedlam.These injustices are of course akin to those described in Blake’s “Songs of Experience” poem “London,” which Jem overhears Mr. Blake reciting: “I wander through...