They displayed tremendous personal strength, and directed their anguish not toward revenge, but instead to public service.
When Cyrus and John square off, the Duplass brothers might have turned in one of two directions: toward wild comedy or toward anguish and rage.
David criticizes the directors for not pushing the movie squarely "in one of two directions: toward wild comedy or toward anguish and rage".
The director's decision to deploy voice-overs, drawings, effects, and animation is admirable, and there are several moments where their humor (as in Minnie's self-imagination as a giant) or tenderness (a wondrous flutter of imagined rose petals in a moment of anguish that veers toward relief) hints at what could have been throughout.
Suicide can be akin to a crime of passion, an impulsive grip of anguish, a leap toward annihilation neither premeditated nor meticulous, but lethal nonetheless.
My early relationships with men were more like car wrecks than mating rituals, tending toward longing and despair, anguish and Sturm und Drang.
The banter of the men drinking around their rude table is shot with the wry detachment of an early Jim Jarmusch movie, while the film's late turn toward sudden violence, wrenching anguish and redemptive tenderness have a Bressonian flavor.
Ships' horns blared over Giglio's tiny port to celebrate the moment, and some of the island's 1,500 residents hugged salvage workers as they came ashore from what is likely to be seen as a bold step toward redressing some of Italy's anguish after the Costa Concordia, the length of three football fields, careened into the reefs on a wintry night in January 2012.
The businessman reappeared toward the end, holding his head in apparent anguish; the word "GIVE," in large capitals, filled the screen and changed to "FORGIVE"; the businessman stood, looking down, as blue water poured from the pockets of his clothes, filling the room.
