Word: morbidness
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...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...
...museums so often go in for these days. It sets before you a sparsely documented man of whom enough will never be known: a devout religious painter who lived through a time of doctrinal crisis in the church, which left visible marks on his already self-reproachful and even morbid personality; a link between the exaggerated graces of Botticelli (who died when Lotto was around 30) and the learned artificialities of Mannerism; an Italian who saw the point of Netherlandish art and Hieronymus Bosch along with Germans like Altdorfer and, especially, Durer, not long after Durer himself was being changed...
Antony's Rome is equally unexpected. Triumvirate members Antony, Caesar and Lepidus meet around a heavy, morbid table behind a map of the Mediterranean region painted on the floor. The room has no walls, and one imagines it, like any proper war room, to be smoke-filled and poorly-lit. Like the soldiers in HRDC's fall production of Macbeth, members of Caesar's forces are dressed in tuxedos...
...Ponette How can a child cope with her mother's violent death? Little Ponette (the amazing Victoire Thivisol) simply refuses to believe her mother is gone and waits desperately for her return. In a morbid year for films, Jacques Doillon's shattering French drama gets at a rare truth: surrendering to grief can give one a reason to live...