Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film, when Manuela discovers her son's fate, she lets out a hoarse wail of sorrow, chilling in its nakedness. Much later she is onstage, filling in for Nina as Stella in Streetcar, and she emits precisely the same cry; she has remembered and transformed her mourning into art, and the audience applauds fervently. It is a lovely clue to one of the movie's themes, as Almodovar describes it: "the capacity of women to act without being professional actresses: to lie, to fake, to perform. Men and women both have loneliness, pain, the same kind of suffering...
...Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights). But on this CD, her heart is a chunk of meat in a fridge: unloved, unlovable, freezer-burned. Violated once, she says romance races "right through" her. So she writes songs that investigate the opposite of romance, and she does so with an almost arithmetic sorrow, as her past subtracts from the happiness of her present. Her chronic melancholy, however, does not overwhelm the rapture of her melodies. Her mirror is broken, but the reflection is still beautiful...
...real sorrow was when God placed on him the sins and evils of all of us," Graham said. "He became guilty of all that you and I have done wrong...all of the racial prejudices, all of the lies...
SEPARATION Saying goodbye can be tough, but there are ways to increase the sweetness and reduce the sorrow of parting...
...they'd gotten some therapy, but you just didn't think of it back then," says Jones. "You told yourself you were strong and you could handle it... Maybe the other kids didn't get as much love as they should have because of all the pain and sorrow...