Word: woes
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...creator with certain inalienable wrongs, among them five legs, seven elbows and 423 teeth. In one episode, she shows up as a harem girl to end all harems, and she almost saves the show when she whips out her trusty little recorder and shyly tootles an Elizabethan ditty called Woe Is My Bosom Friend, Lackaday...
...family of man. Before the muted grey stylized panels, columns and stairs of the palace facade, the drama of man's willful pride goes on unmuted. But the play's hypnotic center is Aspassia Papathanassiou as she seethes with mother hate and sways before high winds of woe. As primordially pagan as a bolt of lightning hurled from the hand of Zeus, her Electra consumes the stage with quenchless fire. To see it is to see a classic become a conflagration...
...Polish people, he reminded Gomulka. knew what it meant to wear chains-and knew what it meant to throw them off. "Woe to all who wish to take freedom away from us." he said. "Man in defense will go into the catacombs, enter a conspiratorial defense against the outside world." Then, ticking off some 20 Communist groups aimed at separating Poland's youth from their faith, he cried: "I tell you. you Caesars, you will bow to your God, and you will serve only Him." With new national elections coming next month. Gomulka was obviously anxious to avoid...
Since people identify themselves with a hero, he said, pity is really "feeling sorry for oneself." Accordingly, he entitled one section of his speech "In praise of Self-Pity." "We don't lament in English," he said, and the phrase "O woe is me" is eliminated from translations of Greek dramas. 'But if we have dismissed self-pity from daily life, it remains in our night life. We still weep in our dreams...
Scandals oppress me. Misery of mind and flesh bow me down; with cries of woe I bring my days...