Word: sorrowful
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...sound insulator; and 2) we were meant to eat it. The project team may want to invest in a little more image research. Though to them, pizza is an oily olive branch, it doesn’t represent the same thing to everyone. Pizza is a symbol rooted in sorrow and conflict. East River-ites associate pizza with the smell of tomato sauce and broken scapulae, especially after trying to get their hands on a slice when the project team delivered them to House dining halls. In anticipation of the pizza’s arrival, undergraduates gathered to Lamont Burrito...
...from Indian tribal clients and then bought influence on Capitol Hill through lavish gifts of money, travel and entertainment. "Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this," he told U.S. District Court Judge Ellen Huvelle. "I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused...
...example of the “transformative healing effects of music”—Gershwin was able to transmute his energy and mischief into prolific art, and in collaboration with his brother Ira, wrote some of the most enduring music of his era. Kogan posits that the sorrow and despair found in some of Gershwin’s later works may be due to a depression the composer suffered before his premature death at the age of 38. When asked if he thought depression could be a source of creativity, Kogan answers, “Mental illness...
When RUSSELL CROWE arrived at a Manhattan criminal court last Friday, he had the remorseful-celebrity look down pat. Funereal black suit and dark sunglasses to convey solemnity and sorrow? Check. Supportive wife (DANIELLE SPENCER) at his side, suggesting family-man stability? Check. Checkbook? Check. Crowe, who hurled a phone at a hotel clerk in June, was initially charged with a felony, which could have kept him from working in the U.S. But having paid the clerk, Nestor Estrada, a widely reported $100,000 to avoid a civil suit, Crowe pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge...
...Tony Kushner’s dramatization of the fall of Communism in Russia, the punctuation of its title is certainly unexpected. After all, whatever the play’s oft-discussed “spiritual genius of the Slavic people” actually is—suggested answers include sorrow, vodka, and the motherland—it’s pretty clear that it’s not the kind of joyful exuberance that requires an exclamation point at the end. Kushner is, of course, the type of playwright who tends to embellish everything he does with an emotional exclamation...