Word: sorrowfully
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...Coen Brothers' upcoming film, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" is one of these musicals in disguise. The characters - even the one played by George Clooney - break out into folk, country and bluegrass standards like "Man of Constant Sorrow" that are strung throughout the movie. Set in Depression-era Mississippi, the movie even has a scene which features marching Klansmen and a singing Klan leader. Actually, I could have done without that sequence. The only thing creepier than a singing Klan leader is... well, let me get back to you on that after I see the re-released, uncut version...
...young clergyman is described as having the face of "a sheep with a secret sorrow." Sociopolitical generalization? This is as close as Wodehouse gets: "Unlike the male codfish, which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons...
...always gracious." But you can also make the case that if his father didn't exactly have a normal childhood, neither did W. The death of his three-year-old sister Robin in 1953, when he was seven, has been seen as one source of his breezy manner; when sorrow settled over the house, the little boy saw it as his job to lighten things up, especially to cheer up his mother, whose hair began to turn white in her 28th year. W. always denies planning his life, plotting to run for President since he was a kid. "I live...
When Americans discovered the news on their television sets, radio stations and informative websites across the nation, they responded with fear, panic, grief and sorrow...
...Ross, the Middle East has almost become an obsession. "We have seen too many victims," he said just weeks before the summit. "There has been too much violence; there has been too much pain and too much sorrow. It would not be responsible for us to sit back and not try to seize this moment." That obsession has meant a lot of traveling. He has flown abroad hundreds of times in search of peace. He has driven the region's embassies nuts, preferring to travel light and shunning the press, allowing no reporters to follow him and working without...