Word: tragic
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...dining room to living room and back, singing hymns to her and telling her little things about the 20th century, and sometimes she dozes off, and sometimes she weeps terribly, and nothing I do can reach her and it absolutely breaks my heart. Nothing Puccini ever wrote is so tragic as the inconsolable cry of your own child. I walk, and she screams until she gasps for breath, and I bow my head and weep. I weep. I say, over and over, "I wish I could help you. You know how much I love you, don't you?" A tender...
Perhaps Diana's tragic death bears closer examination than some of your readers' letters would suggest [LETTERS, March 16]. As a cardiac surgeon, I would think that the way Diana was cared for should be scrutinized, especially if she was alive for well over an hour after the accident and did not suffer a head injury. There are some injuries for which immediate surgery is an essential part of the process of resuscitation. If patients with injuries such as those Diana suffered were cared for in the same way she was, all would die, when, in fact, rapid surgery could...
...early years of this century. It features an unreasonably implacable villain, a talented and idealistic young man determined to rise out of poverty, and a tender love story that ends on a poignant, not to say tragic note. And it was unaccountably named last year's Best Picture by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sentiment a couple of weeks...
...adversity, friendly under fire; her affability marches ever onward, like a line of ants. On her Fox TV series Party of Five, her character Julia is beset by such problems as a brother who may be dying and an adulterous husband, but she's always glowingly empathetic, never simply tragic. In the teen-horror flicks Scream and Scream 2, despite being pursued by psychos and serial killers, she exudes likability and warmth. And in her newest film, the sweaty, hormonal romp Wild Things, Campbell glistens with sincerity, even as her character is swept up in an unlikely swirl of perjury...
...Academy goes ultra-lite this year, reveling shamelessly in feel-gooders to the tune of As Good As It Gets, Good Will Hunting and The Full Monty. Titanic is its idea of tragic ballast: never mind such trifles as lame dialogue, clunky plot contrivances and characters that are closer to caricatures...