Word: wrenchingly
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...monkey wrench is not a pipe-working tool because the inside of its jaws are smooth, and it cannot grip pipe. A Stillson wrench has the serrated jaws and toggle action needed to grip pipe...
...whites-a fairly effective method, according to charges filed last week by the New York State attorney general's office, of preserving the union's whiteness. On this particular test, one of four an applicant must pass, there is not one question about the relation of monkey wrench to pipe...
...media must be liberated, must be removed from private ownership and commercial sponsorship, must be placed in the service of all humanity. We must make the media believable. We must assume conscious control over the videosphere. We must wrench the intermedia network free from the archaic and corrupt intelligence that now dominates...
Their confessions wrench us not only because they are so personal, but also because in their amorphousness is a despair we can all feel, not as women or men, but as human beings. And surely, this is Joyce Carol Oates' only real concern, evoking this kind of understanding, raising this kind of human consciousness. And her Wheel of Love then is also a wheel of lies, of lust, of loss, of life...
When she gulls his simple human sympathy, then extorts a groveling apology the wrench of comic truth lies even in the last unconscious gesture with which Dandin the peasant, stumbling away, stubs out the candle in his barn with bare fingers. Hirsch's is a rare and flawless performance, a French tradition made...