Rodrigues's own spiritual and physical agonies seem even farther away.
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Its agonies are tempered, its regrets hushed, its restraint powerful.
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The Times Magazine examines the agonies of carrying extra weight.
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He also inflicted the same agonies on his own crew.
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Alone with people they trust, Hill and Thomas reveal their private agonies.
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It's hard to describe the initial shock, the terrible bewilderment, the agonies.
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These supposedly isolated human agonies too often turn into wider gun carnage.
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The movie recognizes both the agonies of caring intensely about something (in this case, doing well in school), the ecstasies of finding someone else who shares that intensity, and the further agonies of separating from that person via graduation.
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"Great pains" are AGONIES, and are also a nice play on the Great Plains.
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Democrats demanded more gun control and warned that America's racial agonies were far from over.
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Her agonies made me squirm and recall my own emotional roller coaster at that age.
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But the victims of Chicago's agonies have certainly done their part to try to end them.
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At the end, the focus shifts from the agonies of Saroo to the glories of Google.
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This is a country that went through agonies over whether to arm Iraqi Kurds battling Islamic State.
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One of the central agonies of their lives tends to be an inability to communicate their internal state.
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Mr. Siegel was more effective at the agonies of the third act than the ecstasies of the second.
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Instead she goes almost everywhere, exploring the agonies of eight major characters, each with a poster-sized problem.
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In addition, they no longer suffer the agonies of the daily commute: the cramped railway carriages or gridlocked roads.
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These will vary: concerns about EU migrant workers in Britain have little to do with Germany's agonies over refugees.
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Instead, it's an impression of the mysterious social forces and private agonies that might drive a person to extremes.
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If Shakespeare is our contemporary, it is not because he shares our attitudes but because he shares our agonies.
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Maybe the difficulties of influencing can be documented just like the agonies of a full-time job have been.
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There were clearly so many private agonies to choose from that my favorite McPhee story didn't even make the cut.
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A generation of Britons born in the late 1960s grew up alongside Adrian Mole, sharing in his teenage and adult agonies.
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For the long view, add the late Hugo Young's "This Blessed Plot", the best chronicle of Britain's historical agonies over Europe.
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Perhaps that is the point, and his real bet is that sanctions will bring about economic agonies that topple the regime.
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What Reeves calls Arthur's "deeply emotional, even romantic" nature came to the surface as he attached himself, mentally, to Garfield's agonies.
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Filling "What About Me" with soul-grinding encounters and galling trials, Amodeo nonetheless exalts Lisa's agonies with tender, transcendent passion. ♦
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"Beasts of No Nation" is hard to read in an easy way; the agonies and atrocities it recounts provoke simple responses.
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But it has positioned itself as a force to be reckoned with, relishing Washington's agonies at the hands of Taliban insurgents.
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General anesthesia is one of the great blessings of medical science, making surgery possible without the agonies suffered in the past.
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Compare this with the agonies of Brexit Britain, Germany's dysfunctional coalition and faltering economy, or the political paralysis of Italy and Spain.
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The Goldfinch is a love song to New York City, a city I love, and the agonies you go through growing up.
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Oiled up and on the clock, Poot Lorlek was the master of eight-limbed agonies and ecstasies. Cautious. Cat-like. Flamboyant. Resilient. Unflappable.
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There's a pall over all the pleasure, not just cast by the war but by the intermittent italicized agonies of the unnamed man.
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Mr Gingrich's own career in Washington, built on demagoguery, back-stabbing and egomania, foreshadowed the Republican Party's current agonies and Mr Trump's rise.
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But it's the interviews — watching patients recount agonies they've suffered from poorly researched and regulated medical devices — that are hardest to sit through.
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As Britain twists and turns in the agonies of Brexit politics, it may be salutary to look at other countries' experience of similar torments.
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But until its paymaster, Iran, decides that Mr Assad is no longer worth propping up, Hizbullah's losses, and Syria's agonies, are likely to continue.
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There's even more about its ecstasies and agonies in "Tickled," a terrifically entertaining documentary about a strange, murky corner of the adult tickling world.
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If you find yourself crying at "Adrian Mole," it's partly because the agonies of its title character are as temporary as they are intense.
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What a great image, showing how once again, all these characters' hopes and fears and agonies are just cheap entertainment for a barely invested audience!
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It was an uncomfortable but powerful moment that snapped into focus this drama about private agonies crammed into the pressure cooker of a performing life.
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Rae notes the rise of acidity in her body as she listens to the mothers describe their secret torments and night terrors and pelvic agonies.
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It does so gingerly, knowing that its path from 21998 to the present day is strewn with agonies: years of civil war and terrorist bloodshed.
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In all the turmoil, what is really important comes into sharp relief: True feelings are shown; the agonies and the brightness of life are displayed.
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Or maybe they just know that a steady job with decent health benefits does not exempt anyone from the arbitrary agonies of our current system.
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It's too bad that they didn't have a better director who instead could have figured out cinematically how to convey Henri's agonies during his confinement.
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Feature The agonies of being overweight — or running a diet company — in a culture that likes to pretend it only cares about health, not size.
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After a career playing good guys and audience surrogates, the actor has created his own series, "Breeders," a dark comedy about the agonies of parenting.
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The agonies of the summer of 1968 or the spring of 1861 teaches a great deal about the consequences of failing to maintain a healthy republic.
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Turkey may be an outlier in terms of its erratic policymaking and the scale of its foreign debts, but its agonies seem likely to be protracted.
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She became active in an international Facebook group dedicated to home and water births, stockpiling mindfulness tips to help her override the physical agonies of labor.
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My worry, though, is that the films are so perfectly polished and poised that they tempt the viewer to find their characters' agonies and losses admirable.
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Most of the suburban women I've spoken with have heard gut-wrenching stories about the agonies of withdrawal for babies born to drug-addicted mothers. Rep.
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These perceptions have become even more entrenched as the EU has grappled with its internal agonies of economic distress, mass migration and the risk of Brexit.
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Its moral complexities and political ambiguities are intriguing rather than troubling, its ethical and emotional agonies a diversion from rather than a reflection of our own.
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The movie's lived-in realism puts Barry on the ground, rather than in the air, where he experiences the usual coming-of-age agonies and joys.
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David Burke says the next wave of Android smartphones will tackle one of the agonies of modern existence: Copying text from one app and pasting into another.
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He doesn't stint on the graphic physical and emotional agonies of slavery, on the grotesque details of physical abuse, merciless labor, and sanctioned rape, torture, and murder.
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The only thing to emerge with any clarity from this week's dramatic events is that Britain's agonies are likely to go on for longer than originally billed.
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It would be nice to suppose that Venezuela's agonies will soon be at an end, on the theory that it can't go on like this much longer.
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A singular filmmaker, Mr. Garrel makes intensely personal films about love, family and intimacy that are filled with romantic agonies and beautiful faces made for close-ups.
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She learned she had cancer in 2017 and maintained a blog chronicling the day-to-day indignities, agonies, optimisms and dark amusements of living with the illness.
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To what extent audiences elsewhere will be stirred by these agonies is hard to say, but Sachs finds ways in which to counter the charge of parochialism.
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"I will confess to having been flattered at being kicked around as a possibility, but I had seen so many close friends go through such agonies," he says.
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And in light of the recent influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees into Germany, the music's compassionate look at the agonies of displacement took on new significance.
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Gianfranco Rosi's documentary, which won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival, contrasts a 12-year-old boy's ordinary life there with the humanitarian agonies around him.
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As Shikibu writes of Genji: "Despite himself he could not help seeing that that old habit of his, to suffer agonies for impossible desires, was with him still."
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It is natural that Taddeo's women relate to this seam of romance literature, because it is designed to make the agonies and ecstasies of women's desire seem heroic.
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The manager, above, a former tour guide, said he realized that many tourists were there to engage with the glorious city's agonies during Bosnia's 1992 to 1995 war.
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The Times Magazine examines the agonies of carrying extra weight — or of running a diet company — in a culture that pretends it cares only about health, not size.
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Together only manages that feat by living as the brainchild of creator-star Esther Povitsky, a comedian who understands the agonies and ecstasies of the world's most aspirational beings.
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The play's Madrid première in 1934 was a huge success, but its frank exploration of the intimacies and agonies of rural marriage stimulated the wrath of the Catholic right.
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And, suddenly, her innermost world — with its private agonies and power struggles — opens up and she is ripping your heart out with a face that now mirrors your own.
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Vaginal bleeding plays a potent supporting role in Alex Thompson's "Saint Frances," unsurprising in a movie this deeply invested in the everyday joys and agonies of being a woman.
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Labour's ascendant left wing likes to think in terms of vast, impersonal, historical forces: the crisis of neo-liberalism, the death-agonies of imperialism and the rest of it.
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When do you receive the agonies of a world ruled by cruel, opportunistic men and decide to deal them back tenfold, and when do you decide to break the wheel?
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In the old days, abortion rights groups that were offered money from Mr. Hefner's foundation used to suffer agonies over whether they should accept it from such a tainted source.
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The Tories' agonies over Brexit not only make it more likely that the next prime minister will be a hard-leftist who blames Britain's problems on the machinations of international capital.
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And if the Constitution be destined ever to perish by the sacrilegious hands of the demagogue or the usurper, which God avert, its expiring agonies will be witnesses on this floor.
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Anyone who remembers the agonies and ecstasies of late adolescence is sure to feel a shudder of recognition — part nostalgia, part revulsion — watching this propulsive Irish drama from the mid-1990s.
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Background reading: • Ms. Brodesser-Akner's article about the agonies of being overweight — or running a diet company — in a culture that likes to pretend it cares only about health, not size.
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In contrast to the elaborate po-mo agonies of Jacobson and the neat undermining charm of Tyler, Margaret Atwood's "Hag-Seed" lays out a satiric account of contemporary plays and players.
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I don't remember agonies over which school for which child, and of course, bullying was a fact of life; no parents felt directly responsible for the social interactions of young children.
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The rest of the story alternates between Mary's descriptions of social agonies in the face of her nemesis and Ella's lonely attempts to confront what she soon determines to be a ghost.
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"The show has a perky earnestness, buoyant enough to float over the genuine agonies of cancer while still acknowledging some of the emotional fallout," Margaret Lyons wrote in The New York Times.
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This Asian-American legacy in politics and art is invisible to Yang, who does not even mention Frank Chin, the writer who most forcefully dealt with the agonies of Asian-American manhood.
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But one merit of "The Thirty-Year Genocide," about the agonies suffered by Christian subjects of the Ottoman Empire immediately before and after its collapse, is that the authors overcome that problem.
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Before her suicide, the "213 Reasons Why" protagonist, Hannah Baker (played by the 218-year-old actress Katherine Langford), makes 443 cassette recordings to recount the agonies of her high school life.
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Many also say that environmental racism left blacks confined to the most flood prone parts of New Orleans, and that the government was slow to respond to the agonies immediately after Hurricane Katrina.
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Having grown up in a family with these beliefs, I remember the joy our congregation took (at both church and school) in reciting the agonies that Christ endured in supposedly dying for our sins.
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The week's agonies are more acute because Donald Trump's juggernaut-like progress to the nomination amounts to a repudiation of many of Mr Ryan's most cherished conservative politics, and of his approach to politics.
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"A return to entheogens for the treatment of psycho-existential suffering may signal that medicine has come full circle to embrace the earliest known approach to healing our deepest of human agonies," he wrote.
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Contrariwise, I believe Mr. Nabokov is slyly exploiting the American emphasis on the attraction of youth and the importance devoted to the "teen-ager" in order to promote an unconscious identification with Humbert's agonies.
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Divorce has colored the life and work of the writer-director Noah Baumbach, and he brings all that experience to bear on "Marriage Story," a comedy-drama about the agonies and possibilities of uncoupling.
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While the show has taken great pains to show the agonies and ecstasies of Shiela's zombie life — pros: increased sex drive; cons: increased murder drive — it sidestepped that essential question for most of its existence.
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As I noted last week, Trump's public agonies over what to do on his signature issue revealed his disconcerting tendency — contrary to his truth-teller, bomb-thrower image — to agree with whomever he's speaking to.
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In a less topical vein, we have the agonies of the lovely MwE, who at 26 is approaching her sell-by date and who receives us in a suspended cocoon chair in her special downtime room.
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The writer-director Atsuko Hirayanagi isn't selling a packaged idea about what it means to be human; she does something trickier and more honest here, merely by tracing the ordinary absurdities and agonies of one woman's life.
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Emergency aid is their best hope for recovery from a natural disaster that has greatly compounded Puerto Rico's persistent agonies: overwhelming debt, government bankruptcy and a plummeting economy that has prompted a continuing exodus to mainland America.
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Young Adult Books That Plunge Into the Ecstasies, and Agonies, of Teenage Life New novels about road trips, summer jobs and first love as well as darker realities: mental illness, body issues, the threat of gun violence.
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Xinjiang's agonies are hardly a vital national interest for the first countries to sign the draft letter—Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, joined by the European Union.
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The exhibition records the artist's struggle with a talent that she considers both a gift and a curse, as Aatchim weaves an inviting conversation about artist's practice, sincerely sharing the agonies and emotions that make creating artwork possible.
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Wolff, aiming to convey how unbearable the death of a loved one can be — and how seductive a fantasy of immortal life might be in consequence — wagers that any one of these agonies will secure his reader's sympathy.
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You would have to be a saint not to want to exploit the writhing agonies of the government and the leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn never misses an opportunity to kick the government when it is down.
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There are no close ups: the people — a fisherman, a monk, or a hunched villager — are tiny figures dwarfed by the vastness of a landscape, signifying a worldview far from the passions and agonies of Europe's Old Masters.
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The contradiction between Latin America's extravagant creativity and its agonies of injustice and poverty can be overcome with sound laws and reasonable democracy, he believes, if only "poetic metaphors" are kept out of politics and stay where they belong.
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After decades of campaigning for their country to acknowledge their forebears' agonies, news came that the House of Representatives had voted by 405 to 11 to recognise as genocide the persecution of the Armenians launched by the Ottoman empire in 1915.
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Editorial Amid the slow-motion agonies of Puerto Rico, it is heartening to see the reopening of some schools — though fewer than one in 10 — signaling the local resolve to prevail over Hurricane Maria's devastation more than a month ago.
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"If we can somehow get the people from the two governments ... into a world in which they are working together to start to get things built, a lot of the agonies will go away, or at least be damped down," he said.
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Friends like Laura Linney, Ian McKellen, Amy Tan and Neil Gaiman testify to Mr. Maupin's generosity of spirit, while the writer speaks candidly about cruising in Raleigh public parks, Fairmont Hotel trysts with Rock Hudson and the agonies of the AIDS crisis.
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Down that road lies Iraq II. But American policymakers desperately need to learn how to find the middle road between overreaction and inaction; between a missionary zeal to solve other people's agonies and the illusion that we can remain aloof from them.
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Movies like this tell us that falling in love is easy — cue the thunderbolt looks, passionate kisses and surging orchestration — but if it really were that simple there wouldn't be much to tell, so also bring on the agonies, tempests and tears.
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As the film-within-the film progresses and as Catrin struggles with her own drama (and romantic agonies worthy of a classic women's picture), a few others muscle into the boys' club, including Phyl (Rachael Stirling), a dispenser of feminist truths in slacks.
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The movie (and the novel) flip to another point of view after Rodrigues's apostatization, and now we can only see his actions from the outside, rather than experiencing them through the voiceover of his thoughts, agonies, and prayers that we heard before.
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An even split among his gospel roots, classical education, R&B sensibilities, and frank poetry about the agonies and ecstasies of black queer love, soil fashions him as an iconoclast for a cynical digital era, in which earnest, messy vulnerability has become a rarity.
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With Britain largely disengaged from European security, at least until the agonies over Brexit are resolved, and with continuing uncertainty over Donald Trump's geopolitical instincts and consistency, Germany under Angela Merkel is now the last big pillar of the old Euro-Atlantic security order.
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Sitting in my comfy red-eye cocoon at 35,000 feet reading of his agonies on the ice, and of his even more agonizing decision to call for help so near the end of his walk, the poignancy of Worsley's story brought tears to my eyes.
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It was hardly unusual in the classical tradition to create a song cycle tracking the agonies of love — think of Schubert's and Schumann's wrenching collections — but Janacek, working with anonymous poems that had appeared in a Czech newspaper, made things a bit more theatrical.
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" Justice Indu Malhotra summarized the agonies of delay of justice to a large population: "History owes an apology to the members of this community and their families, for the delay in providing redressal for the ignominy and ostracism that they have suffered through the centuries.
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Macron must conquer these problems - along with the agonies of Brexit negotiations and the continued hostility of the central European members Poland, Hungary and Slovakia to much EU policy, especially on immigration - if he is to join Merkel as chief engineer in the Union's engine room.
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Here it was: all the joys and agonies of one person's life, but so blurred and compressed that it was impossible not to recognize the form that all our lives assume from such a telescopic distance — a forgettable blip, a meaningless straight line from birth to death.
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ALBANY — The agonies of budget season in Albany are all too evident: marathon negotiations and legislative sessions running all night; bills debated, batted around beyond recognition and often left for dead; and the hopes of millions of constituents raised and dashed in the course of an hour.
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We learn that her father — a World War II veteran whose agonies and aggressions remain somewhat oblique, but who would be described in traditional parlance as having had a "bad war" — can't abide the fact that Lucy's husband is of German extraction, with "blond German looks" to match.
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SELDOM have Australia's complex relations with China been more starkly exposed than in the agonies of Sam Dastyari, a prominent opposition MP. Three months ago Mr Dastyari gave a press conference with Huang Xiangmo, the head of Yuhu Group, a subsidiary of a property company linked to China's government.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The allegory of the Dance of Death, and its evocation of the agonies and ecstasies inherent to the life and death cycle, took on distinctly erotic overtones by the time it morphed into Death and the Maiden at the end of the 15th century.
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Mr Corbyn's prevarications are a reminder of what a risk Britain would be taking with its foreign policy if it sent Mr Corbyn to Downing Street in the next election, which is due in 2022 but could happen earlier given the government's lack of a majority and the agonies of Brexit.
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Even if you know and love this masterly movie—the first and last occasion, for Melville, in which a female character takes center stage—seek it out afresh at Film Forum, where eleven minutes of additional footage have been restored, most of it overtly concerned with the ethical agonies of occupation.
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There is nothing banal about that, and "Operation Finale," directed by Chris Weitz from a script by Matthew Orton, tackles the ethical puzzles and psychological agonies facing the Mossad operatives who must not only hunt down Eichmann but also look after him as the plans for extraction start to go awry.
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But political foes of the Kremlin — who were mostly barred from competing in the elections, spurring the first widespread protests in Moscow since Mr. Putin returned to the presidency in 2012 — took comfort from the governor's subway agonies as a sign that not everything in Russia is going Mr. Putin's way.
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Betty Draper in "Mad Men," for example, always struck me as a punching-bag for the writers — a cold, sometimes cruel, mother subject to not only chronic marital humiliations but also to the indignities of binge eating, followed by the agonies of lung cancer (which she petulantly smoked her way through).
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In the 1980s, when Judith Rossner's novel "August" came out, dealing with the relationship between a Manhattan analyst, her analysand and the particular agonies of the warm-weather hiatus, it was still possible to find regular coverage of the best, and most outlandish, methods for coping with the loss of the departing clinician.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Arthur Jafa's supernova of a short film, "Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death," recently on view at Gavin Brown's Enterprise in Harlem, montages together found footage of African-American civic, political, and cultural life into a blistering visual manifesto on the ecstasies and agonies of blackness.
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In his victory speech, perhaps for the first time, he effectively conflated the agonies of his own life -- after burying a young wife and two children, suffering a life-threatening brain aneurysm and flaming out in two previous White House campaigns -- with a party and a nation he believes have been battered by a mendacious president.
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Making use of the Child Victims Act passed by the state Legislature this year, one of more than 700 cases to do so, they claim that they were sexually abused by the dormitory housemaster, a man long since dead, who molested multiple girls on a daily basis, leaving them to struggle with the attendant agonies for decades.
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Since then, Pinyin (the name can be translated as "spelled sounds") has vastly increased literacy throughout the country; eased the classroom agonies of foreigners studying Chinese; afforded the blind a way to read the language in Braille; and, in a development Mr. Zhou could scarcely have foreseen, facilitated the rapid entry of Chinese on computer keyboards and cellphones.
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Posts discussing play-by-plays of the pains and agonies of a miscarriage, from spotting to cramping to tissue expulsion, or detailing hours of preterm labor and the inability to stop the contractions that will produce a baby too young to be considered "viable" for transfer to the NICU, are shared in hopes of finding solace and support from their mothers-in-arms.
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The tumult in Hong Kong, the spread of populism around the world, the agonies over Brexit in Britain, the struggle against corruption in Ukraine, the weight of colonial legacies in Africa — in every corner of the world people are struggling to determine how they should be ruled, and all will be watching how the United States emerges from its trial.
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At one time or another, after all, different visions of the novel have vied for prominence: the idea of fiction as a kind of play, a pretend state that liberates our powers of invention; the appreciation of fiction's role in releasing unexpressed agonies, allowing us a cathartic self-knowledge; the awareness of the thrill fiction offers of living in a space where assumed values are thrown into question.
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Frank Bruni The agony of Donald Trump — well, one of the many agonies — is that there are times when he will actually do the right thing, or at least a defensible thing, and we'll be left wondering, even more than we did with other presidents, about what his motivations were, whether they fit into any truly considered plan or whether his actions amount to the newest episode of a continuing reality show.
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