Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regret when he was re leased from the camp in 1953: "Only on the threshold of the guardhouse do you begin to feel that what you are leaving be hind you is both your prison and your homeland. This was your spiritual birthplace, and a secret part of your soul will remain here forever - while your feet trudge on into the dumb and unwelcoming expanse of freedom...
...idyllic Paul Mellon's English summers must have been, that years later millions of dollars should have been used for what you call systematic collecting and I call pillage of much of Britain's artistic soul...
...must not think that the makers of this film intend merely to wow us with gaudy excess. No, no, no. They have soul. Quinn is discovered brooding sadly over his wife's beauty. Why does it make him gloomy? Because, he says, all beautiful things must eventually fade. That is in the nature of things. He is full of such slack epigrams, otherwise known as folk wisdom. Though this trait is more laughable than memorable, it serves the function of making him human, despite his wealth, his international wheeling and dealing, his lusty eye for wenches. Indeed, since everyone...
...finished. In Paris, Beckett joined the circle of acolytes surrounding James Joyce; the young Irishman's first published work was an essay championing his senior countryman. Joyce's daughter Lucia, who was drifting into the schizophrenia that would eventually disable her, fixated on Beckett as a soul mate. She knew...
...romanticizing them with a league-of-gentlemen myth. Mostly, the sources of his book are an unsavory lot, greedy and loutish. One, however, had a taste for Flaubert and Wittgenstein, another the skill and nerve to become a professional racing-car driver, and a third possessed a spontaneously poetic soul. He greeted the dawn after the successful holdup with lines from Omar Khayyám: "Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night/ Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight...