Word: tragic
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...would have. Now there are all kinds of alternatives, women’s centers, all kinds of resources. Evelyn didn’t have those kinds of resources. The message is change whatever you can, but if you can’t, be happy. I mean, it was tragic that women were stuck in the house. And growing up in the feminist era, I learned to feel terribly sorry for housewives. And here was this woman who lived in the middle of nowhere, yet she was happy. And that was the revelation...
...novel by female writer Fumiko Hayashi, often considered as Naruse’s muse, the film is recognized as one of Japan’s greatest tales of obsessive love, a story of woman bound by circumstance and self-delusion, determined to pursue a romance to its tragic conclusion...
Complexly satiric and tragic, Lulu is a portrayal of an uncommonly animalistic female sexuality. And yet this devouring, voyeuristic female role is a lens through which to comment on the harm of social divisions. It’s a conclusion reached through the unusual device of maintaining Lulu’s overt sexuality from the height of her social stature through her decline and fall. Lulu embodies the commonality that bonds humanity: the sexual craving...
...referenced the “tragic reality” of life for the Serb minority in Kosovo, saying that they live under the “worst sort of tyranny of the majority,” but added that “the legitimate interest of Kosovar Albanians must be taken into account” during any negotiations...
...fiery blaze. Moreover, the Twin Towers collapse as Mike is losing the two pillars of his own life: his brother Lyle and his girlfriend Jane. It seems that McDonell is likening the events of 9/11 to Mike’s travails, which – though also tragic – are absolutely incomparable to the terrorist attacks...