Word: sadnessã
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...Harvard students who have not known this experience—with its attendant misery and self-pitying sadness??cannot truly appreciate the World Series victory they only so recently saluted by their short and mindless, beer-infused revelry in the Square last October...
...continued, “This is exactly how I feel about the human rights violations in North Korea. It’s this really weird mixture of emotions—it’s not just anger, it’s not just frustration, or just pure sadness??it’s everything combined...
...privileged freshmen placed in Eliot or Adams undoubtedly interspersed their justified excitement with sighs of relief, as those “Quadded” unfortunates concealed their profound disappointment with airy-fairy promises of “community.” On Housing Day, there is seemingly no sadness??there is only the comfort and contentment of knowing your next three years will be spent alongside House-mates similarly imbued with a proud sense of “spirit...
Also, in defense of the line, “I can see your sadness?? (I apparently have more invested in this debate than even I expected), you seem to forget its context. It was delivered by an immigrant worker whose imperfect English was intended to make it sound somewhat stilted, excusing any loss of impact derived therein. I present to you another line from Adaptation that single-handedly trumps any off-day Kaufman offerings, when Donald Kaufman describes the screenplay he’s working on: “So the killer flees on horseback with the girl...
...issue here: Kaufman, along with “creative” filmmakers like Wes Anderson and Darren Aronofsky, have proven that audacity and innovation don’t automatically beget relatable characters, untiresome plotting, or, as I alluded to with the “sadness?? line, thematic grace; if Kaufman didn’t want the line to be trite and heavy-handed, he should have found a different way to express the sentiment behind...