Word: dooming
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Women are always serious about love, but Doris Lessing is more than serious: she is downright glum or defeatist. She writes about people broken in love with the doom-laden tones of a Thomas Hardy telling of the time of the breaking of nations...
There is death, the story says, not at the end of life but in its midst. Most pitiful of all people are those to whom a choice is offered and who doom themselves to the darkness...
...stickmen"-men that were no longer men-populated his world; and in his tortured oils, the hell that was always next to him burned with the intensity of a holocaust. Whereas he once demol ished individuals with a few lines, he now loaded his palette with the colors of doom. Memories of My Mother got its title after it was finished, when Grosz learned that his mother had disappeared without a trace in a bombing raid on Germany. What Grosz was painting was not the end of one life but of life itself...
...consequences. As Actor Chhabi Biswas portrays him, the zamindar is a seething complex of contradictions: arrogant yet sensitive, pigheaded as well as lionhearted. He is a fool but there is something magnificent in his folly, and even at his most fatuous there sits upon him the ennobling dignity of doom...
...Know Nothing." During the 1920s, Bultmann sealed the doom of the old quest, as far as Europe was concerned.* He argued that the Gospels were interested not in presenting a dispassionate portrait of Jesus but in expressing the kerygma-the proclamation of the early church's faith in a Risen Christ. This meant that although the New Testament might be a primary source for a study of the early church, it was only a secondary one for a life of Jesus. Since the faith of later generations was really based upon the shining faith of the first Christians...