Word: leste
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Lest the audience seek any respite in the comfort of the everyday world, the setting of Dido, Queen of Carthage looks and feels as dark and cold as outer space. When in one scene Dido, Aeneas, and their courtiers go hunting, the sudden appearance of staged “daylight” is beautifully painful, revealing vulnerable men and women so damaged by reality that they seem more at home in the gold-and-black no-place of the remaining scenes...
...becomes a hypnotic, if horrific, mix. One after another of the innermost members of Hitler’s circle defy and abandon him. He mentally and physically deteriorates further and further (until when asking a confidante how to shoot himself, he is told he should take cyanide as well, lest his violently tremoring hand not be up to the task...
...Lest you belong to the unlucky few, let’s just say that Hakim Warrick is, with apologies to Ron Burgundy, kind of a big deal. In sports fan circles, at least, the immensely talented Syracuse forward belongs to the pantheon of Household Names...
...Congressional action to stop the shameless wasting of tax dollars on subliminal self-promotion, particularly of the mock news-broadcast variety. It’s the responsibility of the government to stay out of journalism and the duty of news broadcasters to keep the government off their turf, lest television’s last little island of truth be submerged forever...
...take advantage of today's opportunities because of a sense of foreboding and fear of loss remind me of John Marcher, protagonist in Henry James' novella The Beast in the Jungle. Certain that some great misfortune was about to befall him, he failed to marry the woman he loved (lest she share his fate), or to do much of anything, only to realize too late that the great misfortune fate had in store for him was to throw away his life and opportunities because of his excessive caution and fear of the future...