Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Israeli government expressed its sorrow, but behind the scenes a more sober view reigned. Assad was, in some ways, a good foe to have: smart, reliable in his intransigence. Though in 1973 he sent hundreds of tanks swarming toward Israel on the Jewish Day of Atonement in a concerted effort with Egypt to regain Arab territory, once he'd lost the war, he kept to the truce with utmost scrupulousness...
...hard to exaggerate the effect music can have on the human brain. A mere snippet of song from the past can trigger memories as vivid as anything Proust experienced from the aroma of his petite madeleine. A tune can induce emotions ranging from unabashed joy to deep sorrow and can drive listeners into states of patriotic fervor or religious frenzy--to say nothing of its legendary ability to soothe the savage breast...
...this season of departure, with seniors leaving to begin their lives in earnest, our president preparing to step down and the Simpsons riding off into the sunset, sports fans and others alike can take solace in centuries-old wisdom: "Parting is such sweet sorrow...
...slightest cynicism regarding today's media-which is to say, anyone with a pulse and half a brain-regards such reporting with healthy skepticism. We never know how staged and contrived these events really are. But with Nachtwey, our cynicism gives way to empathy, and our skepticism to sorrow. The special place of Nachtwey's photography is the realm beyond the contrived, where even jaded media-hounds cannot escape the pathos. The starvation in the Sudan and in Somalia is impossible to stage, and the subjects are too weak to strike a pose. We see the stick-men dying...
...master; and George Crane turned out to be a sympathetic Sancho Panza and inner Mongolian at heart. Written with the quick, vivid immediacy of an ancient Eastern poem, Bones beautifully recounts the recent heartbreaking history of Mongolia--and shows how spirit can get the better of even the deepest sorrow...