Word: despairingly
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...ballerina: "Nureyev is like Callas singing Bellini; Bruhn is like Schwarzkopf singing Mozart." But Bruhn has learned something about characterization from his friend Nureyev. As Don Jose in Roland Petit's version of Carmen, Bruhn was a man possessed, a smoldering Valentino driven by lust and racked with despair. Eyes afire, nostrils flaring, he sprang about the shadowy stage with the fierce grace of a panther. But later in the week, in the pas de deux from Petipa's sprightly Don Quixote, he reverted to the cool precision of his classical discipline. His high, floating leaps were unstrained...
...devil is dancing with me! Madness, take me and destroy me!" So, in anguished scrawls, wrote Composer Gustav Mahler in the margins of his Tenth Symphony. Slowly dying of a streptococcus infection, he was torn between periods of black despair and intimations of immortality - all of which he attempted to pour into the five-movement Tenth, which was to be the last great testament of his life. But in 1911, before he could complete it, the disease killed...
...scientific gatherings, French is spoken at many others. At the United Nations there are many instances when the majority of speakers addressing the Assembly on a particular problem do so in French. I can assure you that the French-speaking communities all over the world have no reason to despair as to the vigor of the French language. A final point: you fail to mention that in Canada, French is the native and only tongue of more than 3,000,000 French Canadians...
...colleagues' can-do attitude. "We can't just sit back and say it's God's will that there is a flood in the Middle West," he says. "We have the technology to handle things like that and we have to use it. Throwing up our hands in despair won't get us anywhere...
...Royal Hunt Shaffer has tackled some of man's profoundest problems: God, Faith, Hope-Despair, Joy-Pain, Greed, Honor. In the Introduction to the printed text, he states some of his premises: "What is most distressing for me in reading history is the way man constantly trivialises the immensity of his experience" the way, for example, he canalises the greatness of his spiritual awareness into the second-rate formula of a Church-any Church..... To me, the greatest tragic factor in history is man's apparent need to mark the intensity of his reaction to life by joining a band...