Word: teared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...desire to avenge his father's death is tamed by the play's genteel environment. Delivering lines with playful refinement, Scott's performance works best when he banters with Polonius (David Cromwell) or soundly rejects the love of Ophelia (Natacha Roi). But his passionate soliloquies fall flat, failing to tear the polite veneer from his countenance. His only way of communicating unbridled passion is with a hollow scream, which sounds insincere and empty...
...Brown ends his editorial by assaulting America's First Amendment rights with his statement, "Furthermore, the Confederate Flag should be torn down wherever it is raised." To tear down a flag someone has raised on their own property smacks of the Nazism Brown rightfully decried in his editorial...
...father. Jess, a trucker, was in dire health at the time, and he told Rudy he was holding on to see him make the Olympic team. Says Galindo: "A half-hour after I told him [Kristi and I] had broken up, I saw him sitting there with a tear running down from his eye. That's what made me angry. So I decided to train in singles. I figured it was easier to deal with myself...
...many times parents are falsely accused, and their children taken away or one parent is forced to leave. DSS has the authority and power to tear families apart. Many times official charges are not brought against the accused parents. These children are placed into foster care. DSS controls the family unit by dictating to parents when and how often they can see their children. Once a parent is accused of child abuse, all disciplinary rights are taken away. Parents have little choice but to agree with what DSS dictates. DSS claims that if parents are unable to control a problem...
Producer Emory Gordy Jr. (her current husband) wraps Loveless around 10 prime laments that express the aftershock of betrayal, in musical settings that range from up-tempo to hillbilly solemn. The opener, Richard Thompson's Tear-Stained Letter, has a perky Cajun feel, with fiddles and steel guitar establishing a pace Richard Petty would find hard to match. Yet the song is about the inflicting of some pretty serious domestic abuse--"He danced on my head like Arthur Murray,/The scars ain't never gonna mend in a hurry"--by a guy who then decides he wants to be taken...