Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Helping Drunken Drivers As an attorney, I feel a response is required to those who wrote letters criticizing lawyers who defend drunken drivers [Feb. 6]. It is sad that many people feel compelled to crusade against one group or another and then to use that forum to chastise attorneys. If we disregard the right to a defense of a group that is held in disfavor, then the protection of the law will potentially be unavailable...
...tattered woman patrolling, ever so slowly, a slab of light about the size of a cemetery plot. Into and beyond the grave, she relives her days feeding and changing her aged mother, dominating the mother with her dogged servitude, then slipping into reverie to imagine her self the sad heroine of a gothic novel. Is she mad? Is she dead? Perhaps both, or in transit between the two states, like the old woman Whitelaw plays in Rockaby. A child-dotard in her cradle-rocker, a near relative of Psycho's Mother Bates, she lullabies herself to death with...
...feel sad, and I'm really going to miss my teammates a lot," Boyer said...
Farrell had entertained thoughts of filming Richard II since sophomore year. One of his favorite works of Shakespeare. Farrell describes Richard II as serious poetry that portrays an element of sadness. "It is not depressing sad, but the kind that makes you think." Filming Richard II also had practical advantages. Not as popular as other Shakespeare plays such as Hamlet or Macbeth, a production of it leaves more room for creativity and less room for comparison. Also, as a work of Shakespeare, Richard II is guaranteed an audience...
...decent respect for human life requires a serious, sober response to the news of his death. It is at once strange and sad that many of those conjuring up images of Big Brother display the very lack of humanity, of human sensitivity, that they so readily inveigh against...