Word: hauntedness
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That the White House has begun to resort to that least persuasive of arguments fully four months before the election suggests how clouded Bush's political future has become. The President of late seems more melancholy than usual, flashing with uncharacteristic anger in public, seemingly haunted by unseen furies. At...
Buchberger, 33, also spent a decade wrestling with inner demons. He was hounded by a frightening spirit -- a golden beam of light -- that he believed, had previously haunted an executed murderer. The spirit never spoke. "It tormented me, but I never knew what it wanted," he recalls.
Mental illness can wear many masks. Most are subtler than the deranged face of schizophrenia, but they can be just as paralyzing. Take the case of Dick Cavett. To many TV viewers, the talk-show host and actor seemed to have it all -- wit, charm, fame and fortune. But behind...
This sense of being both backward and culturally different from the West has haunted Russian intellectuals ever since Peter the Great (1672-1725) first tried to hector his unwilling country into the arms of European culture. During the 19th century, Slavophiles argued that the spiritual and communal culture based on...
It was hard not to see Amy after I had met her.She has long, curly, fire-red hair. Later, afterour romance soured, I was haunted by thathair--never could go anywhere without seeing her.After exchanging hellos several times, I told myroommates I had met this woman with the warmestsmile I...