Word: strickenly
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...Bohème is a four-act opera in which six poverty-stricken artists struggle to find success amidst their bohemian lifestyles. Rodolfo, a poet (Robert Grady) falls in love with a silk flower-maker, Mimi (Susan Brownfield) who is fatally ill. As the opera progresses, Rodolfo and Mimi realize that their relationship cannot last—Rodolfo can not stand by and watch helplessly as Mimi’s consumption steals her away from him. In the end, although Rodolfo and his friends give their most prized possessions, this is not enough to save Mimi’s life...
...shenbiao qianyi, a deep apology, for an incident it would be more inclined to blame on the other side. Instead, the U.S. twice used the English phrase "very sorry," first for the loss of the Chinese pilot, Wang Wei, and second for the failure of the pilot of the stricken EP-3 spy plane to seek verbal clearance for entering Chinese airspace and landing at Hainan...
...Some observers believe that the Jiang's absence from Beijing is giving greater weight to statements emanating from the military, which is taking a harder line in part because of its own embarrassment at losing a pilot and a plane and then apparently being taken by surprise when the stricken U.S. aircraft arrived in Hainan. In some quarters of the Chinese military, the option has been raised of putting the U.S. personnel on trial, an intolerable option for Washington which would raise the pressure for some form of diplomatic retaliation...
...there's a second dimension of the incident that could create the basis for an apology by the U.S. that would avoid assuming responsibility for the actual collision. Since the beginning of the crisis, Chinese officials have repeatedly dwelt on the complaint that after the accident, the stricken U.S. plane did not seek permission either to enter Chinese airspace or to land at one of its military airports. The facts of what occurred after the midair collision are scarcely in dispute, although the U.S. obviously has the mitigating factor of the onboard emergency. Washington could plausibly find...
...become a rather lonely ideologue in the post-Cold War years, as the Marxists of yesteryear made their peace with globalizing capitalism faster than you could say International Monetary Fund. But the AIDS crisis has spawned a battle in which even the most resolutely capitalist governments of the poverty-stricken developing world see themselves ranged against the patents and profits of giant pharmaceutical corporations...