Word: distraughtly
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...live in a cultural ochlocracy, political beatitude aside, it is little wonder that this great nation should recognize Mahler's genius fifty years after that any, powerless ornament of the earth, Holland, Characteristically, the eruption of recent apologies have stressed him as a Bold Innovator or as a distraught mid-century man who is, like all of us course, pre-phoenix in spirit. Such descriptions might deeply engage the imagination of the creators on Easy Rider but are a ludicrous profanation of an extremely complex musician. No matter how hard harried annotators try, their exegeses are usually self-congratulation...
...Natalia is no Mrs. Robinson. Mrs. Hamlin is quite lovely as a woman infatuated by both and individual youth and youth itself. Natalia is more than just a victim of sur-pressed menopause; as Turgenev, who shares much with James and George Eliot, envisioned her, she is complex, distraught. Mrs. Hamlin, though, never searches below the sparking surface she creates. Her second act appearance on a reclining coach is too light; it does not help create a woman who--even if she had not met Beliaev--would have ended up in much the same desperation...
...Angeles after nine days of testimony, the date at the head of the diary's page - May 18, 1968 - underlined the state's contention that the killer who struck down Kennedy almost three weeks later had conceived his act in malice and with long-formulated forethought. Sirhan, distraught that his most intimate secrets would be in the hands of strangers, treated Judge Herbert V. Walker, the police and his own lawyers to some bitter disclosures...
...Nina Simone is saying 'em louder and clearer than ever before. There was a time when her stance was an indifferent slump, her expression unsmiling, her attitude hostile. At best, she was called temperamental, at worst arrogant. She went through one distraught manager after another. But since her 1961 marriage to Andrew Stroud, who quit the New York City police force to become her manager, she has calmed down-and even found a measure of tranquility...
...most of the photos were not unlike those in my own town newspaper: first-of-the-New-Year babies understandably bemused over the sudden transition from anonymity to notoriety; vindicated matrons having just reasserted the triumph of their risen Lord through a successful church bakery sale; or, inevitably, the distraught but delighted graduating high school class. All smiling, self-conscious, vacuous. Or are they really vacuous? Just what am I allowed to see behind the conventional stance and posture with which they protect themselves from the photographer...