Word: woefulness
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...often, says Dr. Wald, there is a woeful lack of communication between patient and family when death is approaching. "This," he says, "is the very time when communication could be freer and more rewarding than ever before. It is a time when old emotional conflicts can be resolved. I've attended many patients who were dying, and knew it, but had had no chance to discuss their fears with anyone. Many were glad of the opportunity to talk...
...Francisco's troubled musical past had always baffled its narcissistic resi dents. The symphony attracted excel lent musicians, if only for the sake of its pleasant location, but it traditionally suffered conductor trouble. Under its last conductor, Enrique Jorda, it had woeful bad luck playing the very center of the classic repertoire, and Jorda's faltering hand stirred a cauldron of bickers and feuds that hurt the or chestra further...
...political hat on tonight." Then he laced into the Kennedy Administration, saying that the New Frontier has produced "1,026 days of wasted spending, wishful thinking, unwarranted intervention, wistful theories and waning confidence." The alliteration was admirable, but Barry proved once again that he delivers a formal speech with woeful woodenness...
Kazantzakis often follows his descriptive and narrative passages with philosophical analyses. In fact, he be gins his journal with "Spain has two faces. Its one profile, the elongated fiery visage of the Knight of the Woeful Countenance; and its other, the practical, square head of Sancho." Kazantzakis develops this view of the Spanish national character throughout the book; for instance, he writes that Saint Theresa "fruitfully and perfectly fused within herself Don Quixote and Sancho," and calls Unanumo's humor "sanchoesque...
...Charles Lee Guy III has been an inmate of California State Prison since he was 16. The songs he has learned to sing there all reflect his sorry circumstance-and among them is the latest composition of a prison chum, country music's Spade Cooley. Guy's woeful voice and guitar accompaniment fit the spirit of his music, and in this remarkable album he has the power of a young white Leadbelly...