Word: anguished
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...have sinned for love and have been damned for their sin to remember forever the joy of love's delight, Paolo and Francesca embrace in pangs and torment. But Tschaikowsky believed that he had lived his best years; his hand faltered. The music twists and tumbles, witless in anguish. Hell is peopled with platitudes. The cruel critic was right. The piece marks the first faltering of Tschaikowsky's genius, and for this reason, it is not often played by the great orchestras...
...when Bishop and Earl were discovering for each other the deep, the epoch-opening significance of Joan's dismissal of clergy and peerage. Discourse political and religious held the stage for minutes on end, but the attention of the listeners was fixed as if it had been heartthrobs and anguish. These were to have their sway later on, for although "Saint Joan" is indeed a controversy, it is before that a play. Those who prefer Shaw in his philosophical mood may even call it melodrama--but then, a little melodrama is not a dangerous thing...
Rome in the springtime. Tito Beppi of the Teatro Paradiso seeks the aid of the specialist Gambella, to cure the fits of terrible anguish and tears that torment him. In the waiting room he meets Luigi Ravelli, the roisterer and squire of dames, who has come to be treated, not for tears, but uncontrollable and ghastly laughter. Sorrowfully Tito tells his story to Gambella and is advised to go and see "Flik", the mountebank of the Paradiso, and laugh again. "But I am Flik!" Attracted by the strange opposites of their disease, Flik and Ravelli are becoming friendly, when Simonetta...
...colour, and in pattern vegetarian like his diet"; Beerbohm Tree, who could never quite memorize his lines and, therefore, "with the most fertile invention posted prompters under tables, behind rocks or ancient oaks, so that the elusive word might be whispered to him as he moved in well disguised anguish from cache to cache,-a curious floating method not unlike that of ectoplasm"; lovable, whimsical Barrie, the little master of Thrums, of whom the story is told that once, wandering over to Bernard Shaw's table in the coffee room of his club and seeing the remarkable mess upon...
Much of the mid-winter anguish occasioned by the daily voyage to Boston in street cars will be alleviated this year, as the H. A. A. had two new busses waiting in front of Leavitt and Peirce's yesterday to take the men to town. Two football players, Evans and Zalakov, will be their pilots...