Word: heartbreakingly
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...contrast to that sense of irremediable loss, Verghese delivers a more affirmative view of the understandings that arise from heartbreak. With his first book, My Own Country (also in 1994), he won prizes and best-seller status with his humane account of being a foreign doctor tending to AIDS patients in Bible Belt Tennessee at a time when neither homosexuality nor drug abuse was much acknowledged. Now he has turned to the fault lines in himself and in a profession that encourages its practitioners to believe that "M.D. stood for M. Deity...
...contrast, most of Cale's songs were much older, coming from his '70s albums. Despite their age, though, the songs were new to a large portion of the audience and a surprised murmur spread through the crowd as Cale sat before his keyboard and began to sing Elvis's "Heartbreak Hotel" to his own classical composition. As one of the best classically trained musicians ever to play rock, Cale excels in playing his compositions...
...centered football field may explain many instances of dropped balls, fumbles and heartbreak throughout the football team's history...
...felt that barbaric and businesslike America could not equal the sophistication of England. Eliot's vignettes of modern life (some sardonic, some elegiac), and his meditation on consciousness and its aridities, reclaimed for American poetry a terrain of close observation and complex intelligence that had seemed lost. The heartbreak under the poised irony of Eliot's work was not lost on his audience, who suddenly felt that in understanding Eliot, they understood themselves...
...with secret messages, directions on how to get North to freedom. Franklin's cryptic hurt serves a similar function; it draws us in, it commands empathy, and it ultimately points us north. Listen to her voice on the prayerful Wholy Holy, spiraling away, taking us away. North out of heartbreak, north out of oppression, north toward where we want...