Word: weepingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...along the bank of the Neva, the oldest of which, the Winter Palace, was finished in the 1750s. Though extremely art rich, the Hermitage is sustenance poor, from its crumbling basements to the cracking veneer on its intarsia doors. Its storage and conservation facilities are woefully inadequate: the walls weep with rising damp, and the lighting is poor -- the "babushka brigade" of women guards has the habit of lifting the frilly curtains of the gloomy galleries to expose fragile Rembrandts and Poussins to direct sunlight. Rumors abound that the primitive cataloging and security systems have made it easy for thieves...
...though, you should know that what it is telling your date is "Stay away." On the other hand, I know people who have worked romantic magic by taking their dates to "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and whispering at an appropriate moment, "Auden always makes me weep." (If you don't get it, go see the movie. If you do, go see it again...
Show Business: Making audiences cheer and weep, Forrest Gump...
...unfolded. They have unfolded simply and smoothly, without crash or crescendo, making the story believable. This story could not be told in some fairy tale because this fairy tale is real life. These are what real people do. These are the motives which cause real people to act, to weep, to have sex, and ultimately to suffer...
...belonged to a time -- a tragedy -- when large literary lines did not seem off, or ridiculous, as they might now. Hamlet and Lear, "if worthy their prominent part in the play," wrote Yeats, "do not break up their lines to weep." She, magnificently, did not break up her lines to weep. There was another thought that was associated especially with her husband: Courage is "grace under pressure." But that line applied to her in some truer way than it applied to him. She earned it in a harder fashion...