Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gardner, a documentary filmmaker, said that the film made him feel "a sort of sorrow or grief," and asked, "What is it about some element of a film like this that is capable of so moving us as to make...
...however, one good reason to see this movie: it features the single most ridiculous line of dialogue in any film made since King David. Threatening his stepmother that she had better help him in sniffing out his father's killer, Billy warns her that she "will experience grief and sorrow of Biblical proportions" if she doesn't comply. Sorrow of Biblical proportions? All that I can say is that if you venture into a theater showing Blue City sometime during reading period or exams, you too will experience sorrow of Biblical proportions. Promise...
...dying mother: "I traced with my finger the huge, adult bones, the fascinating veins that crossed it like mysterious rivers; I fitted my attention exactly to the ridgings of her knuckles, the wedding ring, her pale, flat nails." Not a false note sounds in these recordings of sorrow and sudden grace. Deborah Eisenberg's characters are a unique amalgam of the brave and antic; they regard difficulties seriously, but not themselves. In their perceptions and urban locutions, they might be the daughters of J.D. Salinger's women, the new Phoebes and Frannys, distressed, astonished and ultimately strengthened by the bewildering...
...Velasco's adventure from oblivion. When these pieces first appeared in book form, in Spanish in 1970, Garcia Marquez noted, "I find it depressing that the publishers are not so much interested in the merit of the story as in the name of the author, which, much to my sorrow, is also that of a fashionable writer...
...celebrating his own death sentence. In the excitement of the moment no one seemed to realize that they had just thrown a body-blow to the First Ammendment, the same set of rights that allows such activists to assemble in the first place. It was a cause for sorrow, not celebration...