Word: heartbreakingly
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...there anything Jane Smiley cannot do? In between writing penetrating tales of domestic heartbreak (in novellas such as The Age of Grief), she tossed off a 582-page novel that drew upon her knowledge of Old Icelandic (The Greenlanders). Now, having won the Pulitzer Prize and a permanent place in America's gallery of tragedians with A Thousand Acres, a punishingly dark look at sexual abuse that brought King Lear into the American heartland, she comes up with a 414-page campus satire that culminates in the encounter of a 700-lb. runaway hog and a former Pork Queen...
When Hooker does stick to the blues, watch out. He peppers the blues with his biting guitar licks and genuine squeals of anguish. Indeed, it seems as if nothing goes right in his life. Hooker sings of heartbreak, airline delays and biblical floods with the typical personal torment that makes the blues so affecting...
Donnelly also gives an impressive performance as Jimmy Jack, the Fool counterpart to Dennehy's Lear. Campbell is affecting as the spurned Manus, especially in his heartbreak at finding Maire with George...
...William Gates and Arthur Agee are sports heroes and working stiffs -- magicians on the high school basketball court who stagger under the burden of producing wins (and glory and revenue) for their team. Documentarians Steve James, Fred Marx and Peter Gilbert have produced an epic of love, betrayal, heartbreak, true grit...
...about three hours long. But it moves like Isiah, fast and smooth, and it's over in a heartbreak...