Earlier this month, the F.B.I., as part of its investigation, asked members of the House-Senate committee if they would be willing to submit to polygraph tests, a request that upset many lawmakers and produced a flurry of anguished concerns about separation of powers.
When Ana Maria Archila and Maria Gallagher voiced their anguished concerns to the Senator, an important reframe occurred.
There were many factors at play, but the ethical voices of Ana Maria Archila and Maria Gallagher, two survivors of sexual assault who shared their anguished concerns with the Senator just before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, may have had a central role in helping him reframe a difficult ethical dilemma.
Its anguished plot concerns an aspiring monk's love for a beautiful boy and ends, as this genre usually did, with the death of the boy, who is revealed to be a manifestation of the bodhisattva Kannon.
And like her neighbors, she is anguished over her concerns about her work in light of the death of thousands.
For weeks Berlusconi had been concerned – "anguished", as one aide put it – about the verdict, which came more than eight months after his conviction for tax fraud was made definitive by Italy's supreme court and judges handed down a four-year sentence, immediately commuted to a year.
Roundups of illegal immigrants in Colorado and tough enforcement of immigration laws at workplaces in Oregon have led to anguished, and apparently unfounded, concerns that the government is cracking down on Hispanic workers in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
("What's the matter, tough guy," we ask with false concern to the anguished bully).
He is a confessional singer-songwriter in an age dominated by Adele: in the absence of a collapsed relationship to feel anguished about, Kiwanuka's songs concern themselves with matters spiritual – of which more later – and, on the mournful Always Waiting, the apparently insufferable torment of his pre-fame job.
