Word: woes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fills my heart with dread and woe...
...PRESIDENCY: Woe to the Chief...
Even the dialogue seems abstracted, drained of felt emotion. Ira's immigrant relatives say book-talk things like "Woe is me" and "I would spit in his face, if I could but see him." Memories of his past have obviously obsessed Roth for most of his adult life, but he no longer seems willing -- as he did so memorably in Call It Sleep -- to let his readers experience and savor them firsthand. Perhaps when later volumes of Ira's story appear, the place of this first long chapter in the grand design will be clearer. For now, the book...
...economy is still sluggish and schools are still poor, "so you got taxed a lot more, and you didn't get anything for it." The upshot, in the view of many analysts: voters will grudgingly approve tax increases they can be persuaded are needed for specific purposes -- but woe to the officeholder who raises taxes and has nothing to show...
Arriving at the Mississippi Women's Medical Clinic in Jackson, Tucker learns that the cops have chased away the crazed protester, but someone yells, "God will bring you down! Woe to the man who will take the blood of an innocent child!" A young mother displays a diapered infant. Tucker shakes his head and walks inside; he changes into blue scrubs and starts on the first of this afternoon's 23 abortions...