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...constant melancholy of the woods, winter, and persecution. Even moments of happiness and hope, such as the wedding scene between Asael and his wife Chaya (Mia Wasikowska), are interspersed with scenes of Zus’s bloody work as a soldier and accented by the pain-filled whine of string instruments. To the Jews of the Bielski Otriad forest camp, living life is a sign of rebellion against the Nazis and a demonstration of their faith in the future. Despite the freezing winter and the loss of family members, Tuvia teaches the refugees, and the audience, that all hardships...
...rewarded by the full bounce of the still smooth baubles within her bodice. Overripe? Not even! She remained a desirable woman, Felicity decided. She went to the stables, looking for proof.***Later, afterwards, Felicity found that the total satisfaction of her physical needs had not silenced the gnawing whine in the back of her head. She ran her fingers nervously through The Stable Boy’s hair.“Something troubles you,” The Stable Boy said. There was no concern in his voice. Lacking the energy for pretense, Felicity nodded meekly...
...never heard Jay or Tune complain,” sophomore Jeff Lee said. “They never whine and when times get tough, they put their heads down and battle through it. They keep us on our goal of getting to the Eastern finals...
...Right about now is when you whine, “But Harvard’s not good at sports,” and get up from the breakfast table, spilling half-finished coffee all over my column photo before running off to your Science A core (if you have any suggestions on what class to take, my e-mail is at the bottom of this story...
...perspectives the most obvious issues are exhaustion and overwork. Emergency-room patients are dryly referred to as "volumes" because of "the way they fill our fixed space" and because of "the volume of noise that we actually hear ... the crying of the child, the belligerence of drunkenness, the thin whine of a failed suicide." And there is a jaded professionalism in the med-school lesson recalled by Fitzgerald during a long night shift: "Always sit down with the patient. It makes it seem like you've spent more time and that you care. If you give this impression (this...