Word: powerlessness
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...compass to steer us through this everlasting night." It's typical of this intense, unsettling play that the most truthful (and very nearly the only coherent) thoughts are expressed by the character who's a stand-in for Satan. The rest are a desperate, surprisingly poignant lot who are powerless to resist their appetites yet aware that facing up to them is part of the struggle toward salvation. That struggle, and this evening, are hard to shake...
...that can serve as an epigraph or epitaph for all the words surrounding it. For Hughes' account of his life with Plath rests on two complementary premises: she was destined to kill herself because of her preoccupation with her father, who died when she was eight; and Hughes was powerless to help...
...Republic, "Clinton's new program represents a renewal of liberal activist government after three years of legislative ennui." Labeling the shift a sea change, Chait goes on to explain that not only is Clinton flying forward with a markedly liberal agenda, but the Republican majority is powerless to stop...
...Morrison's critical essays. But there is really no contradiction between what she says now and what she has written in the past. She views her life and work as a struggle against the use of racial categories, or any categories, as a means of keeping groups of people powerless and excluded. She resents seeing her writing pigeonholed by her skin color. "I was reading some essay about the Black Family"--she makes quotation marks with her fingers--"and the writer went into a comparison between one of my novels and The Cosby Show." She shakes her head and smiles...
...condemning Stevens for his intrusion into their close-knit community. Of those involved in the crash, only two remain: the simple-minded bus driver Dolores Driscoll (Gabrielle Rose) and local teenager Nicole Burnett (Sarah Polley). The rest, including Billy Ansell (Bruce Greenwood), who witnessed his children's death, stand powerless in the face of the tragedy...