Word: tragically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...clay to slab out the shapes. On occasions, he could compress a remarkable charge of emotion into these little studies: in one of them, the curve of the long neck of Antigone weeping over her dead brothers has much the same shape and, in miniature, some of the same tragic force as the woman's head in Picasso's Guernica...
...record. "Had I known all that I know now," she said, "I still think I would have decided to support him." Despite her pride in what she called "the tremendous breakthrough" of perestroika, she says the past seven years were full of "traumatic events" and that 1991 was "tragic." She cited "the 73 hours spent under arrest" in the hands of coup plotters last August, "the betrayal by people who had worked closely with my husband," the collapse of the economy, "the rupturing of the spiritual links of our culture," and the dismembering of the Soviet Union. "I cannot regard...
...CIVIL WAR HAS TO REACH A HIDEOUS CODA TO scare off the rest of the world; Yugoslavia has achieved that state of savagery. Calling the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina "tragic, dangerous, violent and confused," U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali seemed to admit that the international community has lost any hope of controlling the desperately bloody dispute , among the enraged republics that formerly made up Yugoslavia. The U.N., he ruled, cannot send more peacekeeping troops into the Balkans because the fighting is too ferocious. All the West can do is tighten the diplomatic thumbscrews and listen to the screams...
...PARAPLEGIC WARD HASN'T changed much since Marlon Brando and friends first showed us around in The Men 42 years ago. The guys are still alternately bitter and brave, and they ultimately learn to bond with one another. Sex remains for them, of course, a scary and tragic issue. But if THE WATERDANCE has nothing new to say about its subject, at least it speaks in an engaging voice: soft, literate, modest. Probably because Neal Jimenez, its writer (and co-director with Michael Steinberg), is writing autobiographically, he is less concerned with melodramatic invention than he is with anecdotal truthfulness...
Leading slut is more like it. For The Blue Angel is the tragic (if now faintly risible) story of the sadomasochistic relationship between a nightclub singer and a middle-aged high school teacher who becomes obsessed with her. The callousness of Lola-Lola's manipulations was memorable, but not more so than the soon-to-be-famous legs that walked all over her victim. Von Sternberg returned triumphantly to Hollywood, and Dietrich followed...