Word: paines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...world's sin, turns against God as the guilty one, and sentences him to experience for himself the agony of a D.P., "homeless, hungry, thirsty, terrified of death," surrounded by misery and sickness, suffering even the death of his own child, and dying at last himself in pain and dishonor. The human judge duly condemns God "to the hellish journey of being a man," and the three Archangels leave to carry out the sentence...
...anyone say that there was no risk in the world? asked Wilson sharply. "My friends in the Chamber of Commerce." he snapped, "represent some of the richest people in the country. They have never been so prosperous. For them to squawk so much about the budget gives me a pain...
...achievement but far less successful. The moods of the two figures, the man and woman are so opposed that it is impossible to believe that that two human beings could be in proximity. The kneeling man's expression of contemplation is quite out of keeping with the shriek of pain that writhes from the peasant woman's body as she brings forth life...
...metal pieces made from welded scrap iron Donald Knudsen's After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes surely has the more pretentious title but Joel Blatt's Death in Venice is the more successful effort, very effectively creating a scene and mood...
...heaven. Swedish Novelist Sven-Stolpe, 51, a Roman Catholic convert, tells of Edvard Kansdorf, an expatriate middle-aged Swede dying of cancer in Paris. He is a relapsed convert to Catholicism who tries to drown his consciousness as well as his conscience in cognac. The nausea rather than the pain of living makes him almost yearn for death. Around him revolve other people and other lives like planets in a void, always near enough to hail but never near enough to help...