Word: heartbreakingly
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...their intimacy--platonic or otherwise--has mirrored for the ages the perilous courtship between the Native Americans and the early European colonists, a forced marriage of competing cultures and conflicting interests that, like so many other impassioned yet ultimately tragic affairs, began with great promise only to end in heartbreak...
...Reception” was reminiscent of an Oscar Wilde play, or perhaps George Bernard Shaw’s “Heartbreak House,” which played earlier this year in the Adams Pool House Theater. It was a similar European-style house party, albeit with far more action and humor and none of the civility of “Heartbreak House.” And whereas Shaw’s play was characterized by languor, this production could be described in three words: energy, energy, energy...
...Xavier into overtime.Throughout this year’s NCAA Tournament, I’ve felt entirely cut off from sports’ most original and passionate event – a three-week odyssey into the quintessential euphoria and tragedy of athletics. Its closest rival in intensity, ecstasy and heartbreak is the World Cup, but the quadrennial soccer tournament lacks the year-to-year drama that sees teams swing from No. 1 and No. 2 seeds to No. 7 and No. 8s fighting for second-round upsets of traditional rivals. Most of all, the World Cup is without the most...
While Vance is anxious to get back into the swing of things—he hadn’t faced real competition in nearly 10 months before leading off Harvard’s March 10 season opener against Quinnipiac—the Crimson coaching staff remembers the heartbreak of Vance’s injury all too vividly...
...were pretty much used to it by then, desensitized to all the momentum shifts.”For Nguyen, the 5-7, 6-2, 6-7 loss broke a four-match singles winning streak dating back to early January. And for the team, it meant heartbreak and a lot of conditioning, as it showed the Harvard team where its physical condition needed to be.“We’ve got to work on our fitness,” senior co-captain Gideon Valkin said. “I don’t feel like as the match gets...