Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sudden, violent switch of emotional tone, the ironic play on the tension between gaiety and sorrow, are typical of O'Casey, and their effect is heightened by Marc Blitzstein's music and Anges de Mille's choreography. Tommy Rall does the informer's dance with what looks like incredible virtuosity. The incident is milked a little too heavily, but it works...
...More in Sorrow, Gibbs...
...days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon...
...choices were excellent, ranging from the chromatic Forlorne Hope, in which Bream showed he could "pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow," through the expressive Sir John Langton's Pavan--the finest gem of the evening--to the syncopated and almost jazzy Earl of Essex's Galliard...
...expressed himself. That personal expression, that word, was with God and was God, and he existed with God from the beginning." In the Beatitudes, too, many will take issue at Phillips' rendering of the "poor in spirit" as "humble-minded," "they that mourn" as "those who know what sorrow means," "the meek" as "those who claim nothing," and the "pure in heart" as "the utterly sincere...