Word: tragic
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...that the light was “a warm glow.” Teng’s intentions were benevolent, of course. We all get lonely, things fall apart, and sometimes, everything seems lost. If we can find a warm glow, we should bask in it.Yet there is something tragic in all of this: the terrible, consuming misconception that this “warm glow” can be found in endless hours of public secret-sharing. Could it be, as sufferers hope, that public confession or sharing will free us from the burdens we’ve been carrying...
...legendary Jason Robards in a role of angry middle-aged despair more often found in Eugene O'Neill plays. Addie's mother died after giving birth to her; and her father still carries the pain as well as a bitter unspoken resentment toward Addie. These keep him at tragic arm's length from any reminder of his late wife - including the Christmas trees she adored...
...characters, themes, and even melodies of “tick, tick…BOOM!” and “RENT” will enthrall fans of the latter Broadway hit. Even on its own merits, the Adams production brilliantly pushes its characters to their most comic and tragic...
...found yourself, as you practice the role, becoming meaner?CS: Yes, actually. I go home to my roommates and they find that I’m very strange and very aggressive.RR: There’s a lot of death in this play. What’s your favorite tragic death from another play or movie?CS: I don’t really watch bloody movies. I watch thrillers, but not horror movies or anything like that.RR: What’s your favorite movie?CS: I like “The Shawshank Redemption,” “American Beauty...
...people—playing with, listening to, meaningless tonal patterns, occupied and preoccupied for much of their time by what they call ‘music.’” Sacks tries to get to the root of this peculiarity by bringing us into the eccentric, sometimes tragic, and sometimes moving world that he first introduced in books like “Awakenings” and “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” a world populated by Sacks’s patients, many of whom have neurological disorders like amnesia...