MAYBE we all have moments when we need such a stranger, someone whose anonymity allows us to let down our guard and show our raw and battered hearts, to reveal the mess we know ourselves to be.
In "Friends With Benefits" (2011), at 6 10 p.m. on Encore, Mr. Timberlake and Mila Kunis play New York singles with battered hearts and eager bodies — she's a corporate headhunter; he's the art director she places at a men's magazine — who try to keep things light in this "breezy, speedy and (no kidding) funny comedy" about "love and sex in the age of social networking," Ms. Dargis wrote.
But there is still goodness to be found in the wide eyes and battered hearts of these abandoned canines, namely Rex Edward Nortonn), King (Bob Balaban), Boss (Murray) and Duke (Goldblum), who come to the rescue of a 12-year-old boy pilot, Atari Kobayashi (Koyu Rankin), when his plane crash-lands on their island.
"It is a place of service, a place of heroes, a place with a bruised, battered heart that I know will get past this hideous moment".
Extra-low-slung pants, saddle bags, lunches at Balthazar -- these are no longer slightly embarrassing indulgences, but a personal commitment to restoring the battered heart of our city.
One of the strongest blows to my bruised and battered heart came with the discovery of a particularly poignant artefact when sorting through a bin bag of items that I was moving from the family home: amongst the junk and clutter that I seem to attract was my place-card from my wedding.
CHICAGO, July 14 — In Grant Park, this city's front yard along Lake Michigan, a dizzying pack of people filled the streets evening after evening, all holding their gazes firmly on the little plates in their hands, loaded with catfish beignets, curly fries smothered in cheese, pirogies with sour cream, beer-battered artichoke hearts, and fried dough buried in berry sauce and whipped cream.
You batter your heart into submission and tell yourself, as Mohammed does, that: "The most important thing is that if I die, it's with my mum, dad and my sisters".
I've seen Antichrist... Though critics either praise or denigrate Quentin Tarantino's obsessive, swirling-with-references motion picture amour as the core to his pictures -- their very pulsating, battered and bloody heart -- it's not that simple.
Battered economies, take heart: If this idiosyncratic, disorganized, humble city can arise as the unlikely symbol of progress in all this mess, there is hope after all.
"Our hearts are battered, but they will mend," Kassig's mother, Paula, said, speaking stoically.
