Word: tormenting
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...point continually arises that Kollwitz is, after all, an "Expressionist," a wielder of emotions who prefers impulsive, intuitive reactions to intellectualized or classic ones. No answer speaks more eloquently than the suffering "expressionist" figures of Rouault, whose silent anguish mirrors not only torment and martyrdom but that essential dignity of art defined by Malraux as "the voice of silence." The difference, again, is aesthetic, not literary. Kollwitz cries out against war; Rouault affirms the artistry war destroys. One is advocacy and the other...
...terrace cafés spread their chairs and tables out across the sidewalks again. Lovers exchanged lilies of the valley, and concierges, in good humor after the winter hibernation, restored their bird cages to outside window ledges. But beneath the soft blue sky, Paris was in torment; the war in Algeria was now like the Indo-China war at its worst. But unlike Indo-China in the days of Dienbienphu, no end, whether in defeat or victory, was within sight in Algeria...
...weeks has grown as familiar to millions as Ed Murrow's cigarette or Arthur Godfrey's tea bag. Clamped in a vise of earphones, the eyes roll heavenward and squeeze shut, the brow sweats and furrows, the teeth gnaw at the lower lip. But the weekly torment of concentration always ends in triumph for Charles Lincoln Van Doren, 30, who has already won $122,000-more than any other quiz contestant in history-and is still going strong on NBC's Twenty One (Mon. 9 p.m., E.S.T.). Van Doren. a Columbia University English instructor who inherits...
...Hell, it is because we have willed to do so ... So the Lady Julian said that in her visions she 'saw no Hell but sin' and St. Catherine of Genoa said that the fire of the torment was the light of God as experienced by those who reject...
...next, and most lasting, torment is Aide, the wife of Mauger of Fervacques. They fall in love at the court of William the Conqueror, and Fulcun is plunged once more into Hamlet-like indecision...