Word: hauntedness
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Mannus is the last of the believable med school students. Haunted by a death in her childhood, she displays a disconcerting interest in the topic. Mannus is a key player in the story's sexual politics, and universally lusted. So lusted, in fact, that the men chivalrously take turns dying...
In Chinatown, Gittes, normally able to go about his business of prying into people's private lives wihout any compunction, becomes a man possessed after falling in love with Evelyn Mulwray. Similarly, Gittes, haunted by his love for Evelyn and his inability to grant her last wish--that her daughter...
While the audacious putsch introduced a new and disquieting dimension of Muslim extremism to the Caribbean, Jamaat al-Muslimeen remains a fringe group. Still, leaders attending last week's annual Caribbean Community meeting in Jamaica were haunted by the specter of Middle East-style Muslim uprisings.
But I did encounter three things in my first year that have haunted me throughout my college experience: Harvard arrogance, Harvard social life and Harvard humor.
Our memories of war are haunted most by the images of children fighting. Impassive Khmer Rouge kids, taught to massacre civilians, even their parents. Idi Amin's army of thugs, murderous preteens in wraparound sunglasses. Iranian ten-year-olds sent unarmed into battle as human minesweepers, with pictures of Khomeini...