Word: morbidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Imperceptibly morbid and achingly sorrowful, "In Spain, One Thousand and Three," the tale of a widower lusting after his dead wife's mother, is a story that gnaws at the open wound of the human soul that has lost its mate. The Seattle winds could hardly drown Martin Tuttleman's intense longing for companionship, whilst his profession (customer serviceperson in a video game company) involves precocious adolescents whose pretended social savvy aggravate him further by reminding him of what he no longer possessed...
...Captives abound in his work. The dream-suffused character of the art of Burne-Jones won him a following on the other side of the Channel by connecting him to painters in the stream of French and Belgian Symbolism: Gustave Moreau, Puvis de Chavannes, Fernand Khnopff. Burne-Jones' morbid hypersensitivity was what made him a genuinely advanced figure in Symbolist eyes, and it is the trait that is bringing him back into popularity today, now that "heroic," confrontational Modernism is losing its mandate in our fin de siecle...
WASHINGTON: Does the attorney-client privilege extend beyond the grave? Is your lawyer allowed to keep your conversations secret after you die? Believe it or not, the Supreme Court is only just getting around to tackling this basic, if morbid, legal issue. Prosecutor Ken Starr, wearing his Whitewater hat, asked the Justices Monday to require attorney James Hamilton to turn over notes relating to one ex-client in particular -- the late Vince Foster. Hamilton begged the court not to cut off the sacred attorney-client privilege at the moment of death: "People do care," he said, "about their reputations...
...crane or an excavator-that you're there at this performance, watching this happen." In response to those who fear that the project sounds gloomy, Merriman explains that her piece is meant to invoke a child's innocuous eagerness to grasp the concept of death rather than a morbid desire to linger on tragedy. The poignant images captured by Merriman are, in fact, quite uplifting somehow, even strangely humorous at times...
Depression is not just a feeling of sadness but a disorder which, left untreated, can manifest itself in serious physical and psychological symptoms causing profound distress to the individual and his/her loved ones, increasing his/her predisposition for developing co-morbid disorders, and unfortunately all too often, precipitating selfmutilatory behavior and/or suicidality. Depression is not a disorder in the middle ground between "something...scientific...[and] being stressed...